Reply #90: unfortunately, as many as it takes to RESPONSIBLY withdraw from this mess -- or do you like [View All]

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to simply trade 10 or moer Iraqi lives for every American life lost while the Prez fulfills his responsibilities?

Your claim to the moral high ground is suspect, because you desire an outcome that would mean a flood of blood bathing Iraq that puts the current killing to shame.

Many, many more people would die if we followed the most extreme calls for w/drawal now.

The Prez always said he'd w/ draw in an orderly way, taking into account troop safety & security concerns.

Bush broke it (Iraq), but we can't just walk away from it tomorrow. Pulling out in a precipitous and dangerous way would just open the door for retaliation and blood in the streets.

No one remembers Saigon? & what happened to our "collaborators" who were left to fend for themselves?



Regardless of what anyone thinks of the war, there are Iraqi people who worked w/ US forces, and were given NO PROTECTION from our military (outside the embassy green zone) under Bush, because the chickenhawks didn't give a damn about people there who were actually helping them (unless they could prop them up as neoconservative stooges/"leaders")

& there were NO PLANS developed to help them when we pull out.

I don't know if Prez Obama's plans are better than Pelosi, Kucinich, or whomever, to be frank -- I only know Obama knows far more about it than me, & has greater responsibilities than Pelosi, Kucinich, or any other member of Congress who want something faster.

The uber-progressives (or those who have never come to terms with the outcome of the Democratic primaries) will claim the Prez is somehow dissing the base or "breaking" a campaign promise by continuing to follow the principles he laid out over the last 2 years, because it's in their own interests to invent controversy.