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'In the last few days, coordinated attacks across the western province of Anbar have left a significant number of casualties, particularly among security personnel. At least 78 Iraqis were killed and 53 more were wounded.
We're to busy losing jobs and health care to worry about a ongoing war on others.
I'd say President Bush took some wrong advice on how to handle the ME & Bin Laden.
He wanted to be our 'war president', so he embroiled us in 2 totally unnecessary wars - one still going.
And no, the world is not a 'better place' without Sadaam. You need an iron hand to control those countries, and he did. Likewise Mubarak, Ghaddafi and Assad. The Western policy of removing these leaders is having a major destabilizing effect in that region, and I wonder if that is the actual desired effect.
He wanted to be our 'war president', so he embroiled us in 2 totally unnecessary wars - one still going.
And no, the world is not a 'better place' without Sadaam. You need an iron hand to control those countries, and he did. Likewise Mubarak, Ghaddafi and Assad. The Western policy of removing these leaders is having a major destabilizing effect in that region, and I wonder if that is the actual desired effect.
I give credit to Bush, overly optimistic as his intentions might have been, for at least trying to change the nature of the ME.
They've had popular elections in both Iraq and Afghanistan, though I doubt either nation will continue to do so very long after we're gone.
The problem in the ME isn't Mubarik, Ghaddafi or Hussein, but rather, it is the citizens of these nations that do an even poorer job ensuring the rights of their fellow citizens than the dictators in question.
FTR, we could be unembroiled tomorrow if the current war monger would stop looking for foreign civil wars in which to involve the US long enough to give the order to pull out.
'In the last few days, coordinated attacks across the western province of Anbar have left a significant number of casualties, particularly among security personnel. At least 78 Iraqis were killed and 53 more were wounded.
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