mandyky
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Wed Feb-22-06 07:57 PM
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| Scott Ritter was right, we'll be run out of Iraq with |
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our tails between our legs.
I am afraid the Iraqi Civil War started today, and very soon we'll see American GIs being airlifted out of the Green Zone, reminiscent of airlifts out of Saigon in 1975. Our poor guys and gals are getting stuck in the middle of a bloodbath.
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| BlueEyedSon
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Wed Feb-22-06 08:00 PM
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| 1. Only Scott Ritter? How about Pappy Bush, Brent Scowcroft, you, me, etc.... |
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Wed Feb-22-06 08:12 PM
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| 2. SR is the only one I heard |
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use the tail between the legs thing.
He said it on CSpan and that piece of crap Pinkus told him he sounded gleeful about it. This was probably 2 years ago. Even Pinkus has changed his opinion about success in Iraq, I think.
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Wed Feb-22-06 09:13 PM
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| 4. Many, many pols, strategists, military etc said it would be a quagmire, |
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Edited on Wed Feb-22-06 09:13 PM by BlueEyedSon
failure, or civil war....
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| The_Casual_Observer
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Wed Feb-22-06 08:24 PM
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| 3. The US military will be used to try and subdue the civil war. |
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This will continue indefinitely. That's why they are building "super bases".
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Wed Feb-22-06 10:01 PM
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| 5. We would be building those bases anyway, civil war or no. We need a |
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Edited on Wed Feb-22-06 10:01 PM by BlueEyedSon
new permanent presence in the Mid East (we got kicked out of Saudi Arabia IIRC).
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