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• Thursday, September 4, 2008 03:11 PM

  You aren't helping yourself here, T.

  Well, yeah, seeing as it's the capital of the country and that's where most of the insurgent activity took place.

  Does this mean the rest of the country, all 438,310+ km of it, is all pacified and safe for either Kurd, Shite and Sunni to live in side-by-side?

  Here are the ads we need to see:

  Harry Reid saying, "The war is lost."

  Obama saying the surge would fail.

  Various other Dems saying similar things ...

  The war was won back in 2003, the Surge did fail in its primary goal of fostering political reconciliation, and the Democrats have been right in distrusting the Administration's claims.

  All while showing US troops handing over Anbar to the Iraqi army, of captured documents from al Qaeada in Iraq begging for help from Osama because they were being crushed by the Americans, of Iraqis with purple fingers after voting ...

  All of which is years in the past. Iraq today exists only in wikipedia and as a geographical reference; there is no central authority and no sense of actual nationhood.

  And then ending the ad with, "These are the defeatists you want to lead us in a time where Islamic terrorists have sworn to kill all Americans?" -- T. Suarez

  Oh, I see now. We have to kill "them" over there, invade other and destroy countries that hadn't attacks us, so they won't come over here...even though our doing the former incites "them to do the latter.

  And please, don't bring up that document dump from years back. Its insulting.

  —Iokannan in the Well Read Iokannan in the Well's other letters
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