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Originally posted by jsobecky
It is already showing results. Mookie al-Sadr had fled to Iran, and the number of civilian attacks in the past week has shown a drastic drop.
Also, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq was wounded/captured this week, and his top aide was killed.
Originally posted by Royal76
This is a really big case of C.Y.A. These people don't have the power to do anything but show the rest of the world that we aren't united.
Originally posted by BlueTriangle
The argument here is that either there's going to be a troop surge...
Originally posted by AnAbsoluteCreation
Nope. I'll say it again, anything less than 400,000 troops mean nothing. The insurgents will hide till we move on. Simple as that. Oh, then they come back and start terror all over again. Why don't you tell me how you willl eliminate that?
AAC
Originally posted by AnAbsoluteCreation
And it was 8 years before 9/11 where there was ZERO terror plots.
Originally posted by df1
Go sign up.
if I'm expected to live out my life in the Bush43 house of horrors then let Al Queda come kill me now, because this would be existing, not living.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
decrease the surplus population already.
I think this war has been run backwards.
we should be sweeping up and leaving...
Originally posted by RRconservative
You won't like this answer.
We need more troops to prevent your senario from happening. What we were doing before is cleaning out an area of insurgents. We did that, then after awhile they would come back. That is exactly why we need more troops! To have enough to leave behind to secure the area/
My question is...Why do Democrats and Al-Queda want the U.S. out of Iraq so quickly? Al-Queda wants the U.S. out of Iraq so they can claim victory, and laugh at a U.S. defeat. Is this the same thing Democrats want?
Original BBC
The US Senate has decided not to debate a resolution criticising President George W Bush's troop surge in Iraq.
The rare Saturday session followed a non-binding vote backing the resolution in the House of Representatives.
In the House, 17 Republicans had joined the majority Democrats to oppose the increase of 21,500 troops.