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[Tom Boucher <trekkie AT nomorestars.com>]

On Aug 9, 2005, at 3:27 PM, matusiak wrote:

> Should we remove our troops or not?
>
> Is this a good investment of $400 Billion dollars?
>
> How's that tax break working out for you?

I was dead set against the war, thought it was bait & switch against  
the real terrorist problems and that it'd turn into one big ass  
recruiting ground for islamic extremists.

What a shock, I guessed right.

However, backing out, or setting a date to back out is absolutely a  
huge mistake.   If we do that, we paint big ass targets on the armed  
forces over there and the terrorists are even further emboldened by  
defeating 'the great satan'

Our best option at this point is to continue to throw away a  
generation one life at a time until we can get them on their feet,  
and walk out.   At great human cost both from the US and from the  
Iraqi's the jack asses in charge of 'strap a bomb to your dumb ass'  
army will alienate everyone, not just us over here on the other side  
of the planet.

Of course it's easy for me to think that since I'm not in the armed  
forces and I have not siblings/children in the armed forces that are  
there.   But pulling out, or setting some arbitrary date to pull out  
is a huge mistake and does the people who've given their lives to  
this so far is a huge mistake.

The only example I have for this is Somalia.   Black Hawk Down showed  
it to us in all glory, only to have us pull out a little while later  
solving nothing.

And that was a democrat in the office