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Originally posted by Conundrum:
Not for oil as you believe but to remove the oppression and evil that controlled that country, that every Democrat was (before Bush) for getting rid of.
Well, you are wrong on two counts here.

1. I don't believe it was for oil.

2. Every Democrat that was for getting rid of him did NOT share Bush's view. The legislation said that force was a LAST resort. Just because they said he could use it as a LAST RESORT doesn't mean they agree with him using it when he did.

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Every "Troop" as you put it, is held to the highest regard for thier and thier families sacrifice.


As they should be.

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War isn't pretty, nor should it be. It takes boots on the ground to secure your position, not Cruise missles at the touch of a button from thousands of miles away.


Seems to me, those cruise missiles did quite a bit of the job the first time around. Yes, the troups came in...but that lasted what...four days? (And Iraq had actually agreed to a cease fire (that we rejected) two days BEFORE our ground troops went in).

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What a pitiful argument.
What argument? I was pointing out the hypocrisy of conservatives saying you can't compare WWII, but then will say, "oh...we lost how many on D-Day?" when someone mentions how many have been killed in Iraq.
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