Annie
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"I'll answer, though you know, then let's get back to spread of terrorism to Africa?
Democracy as Bush envisioned, no. Something better than Saddam, yes. Saddam killed over 2 m. people, even Lancet doesn't make the claim that Iraq war did so much, and their parameters have been discredited long ago. Yes, the Iraqi people are better off now than then."
making the lives of Iraqis marginally better is nothing we should be willing to take our eye off the ball to accomplish. It certainly is not worth 28K dead and wounded americans and nearly a trillion dollars flushed down the toilet
"As for the training of Taliban, I think it's highly questionable if we'd put more forces in Afghanistan if we pulled some out of Iraq. Don't you? In all honesty, seems we are doing what we have to there, at the pace they can deal with. You disagree?"
Certainly not in the present climate of public disenchantment that Bush's abject failures in Iraq has spawned. And I say again: if our enemies can conduct a televised graduation ceremony for 300 suicide bombers in broad daylight in a country we purportedly occupy and that occupying force does not have a clue about it nor can react to it, we are NOT doing what we have to do there.
Fine with that out of the way, let's move on. Please?