General Patraeus and Ambassador Crocker spoke today on the status of Iraq, and the increased violence. The rhetoric used was no differant than their last assesment...suspend a draw down of troops, and we still need more time. In otherwords, we're covering for George, we gotta run out the clock. Presidential hopefuls, Senators Obama, Clinton, and McCain all were critical of the status. How do we leave? Can we? Politicians, pundits, critics, and supporters have offered thoughts and ideas for 5 years now. In that time, we have lost 4,024 American soldiers, 29,628 wounded American soldiers, and countless Iraqi civilians have died since this error. A caller on the Mike Malloy show, whom is vacationing, asked Marc Maron a great question. It provided food for thought, he mentioned that the Republican rhetoric on the war has long been, we cannot allow the fallen soldiers deaths cannot be in vein. Ok, so in order to prevent that, we allow more deaths of American soldiers? The other thing is the "win the war" mindset, or the "protect American interests"...I thought we went to war over WMD. This blunder of strategy is failing, and to make it worse, we start sabre rattling with neighboring Iran. Senator Obama is correct that engaging Iran in our exit is necessary.At what point do we declare victory? When do we leave? It is going to be difficult, but needs to happen asap. It cannot be done with McCain diplomacy, or Hillary's untruthfulness.
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