prez bush's speech, re : iraq january 2007

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:42 pm

bush seemed confident but stressed in his speech tonight. i feel he ate alot of humble pie regarding the past course in iraq. we had a good run, now a bad run getting worse. he sounded out of breath. i saw read between the lines.......... sh*t or get off the pot, send more troops or fail for sure. pretty grim, but we need to pull together on this mess more than ever. yes, it smacks of vietnam, but with a different enemy. in vietnam the enemy fought to change the political ideals of their country. this jihad thing is out to change the religious diversity of this planet. the islamic radicals have a right to practice their views, but not to do it in terms of violent conversion & bloodshed.

Former Member · **Joined:** Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:40 pm **Posts:** 1493

Unfortunately, I feel that 23,000 more troops is just a drop in the bucket and won't do much of anything given the widespread chaos and the size of the country. If I'm not mistaken I believe Baghdad alone has a population of nearly 8 million people. How on earth can we control the violence in such a large city with the forces that are currently deployed? Let's also not forget the Al Anbar province which is the other big hot-spot for violence and deaths of U.S. servicemembers.

This disaster in Iraq is looking more and more like Vietnam as the days go on. The only bright spot is that instead of 58,000 dead we might only see about 4,000-5,000 American dead once it's all over. Then you and I, my kids, and my grandkids can look forward to paying off the national credit card which was used to fund this misguided adventure...yippee! :evil:

John

Former Member · **Joined:** Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:40 pm **Posts:** 1493

jpeters wrote:

Unfortunately, I feel that 23,000 more troops is just a drop in the bucket and won't do much of anything given the widespread chaos and the size of the country. If I'm not mistaken I believe Baghdad alone has a population of nearly 8 million people. How on earth can we control the violence in such a large city with the forces that are currently deployed? Let's also not forget the Al Anbar province which is the other big hot-spot for violence and deaths of U.S. servicemembers.

This disaster in Iraq is looking more and more like Vietnam as the days go on. The only bright spot is that instead of 58,000 dead we might only see about 4,000-5,000 American dead once it's all over. Then you and I, my kids, and my grandkids can look forward to paying off the national credit card which was used to fund this misguided adventure...yippee! (rant off) :evil:

John

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