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This was a headline for another exciting news story on yahoo, but it left me puzzled for several minutes while I tried to figure out who the "Bush rejects" could be.
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Where is our President Bartlet? I'd vote for that man. INstead...we get...Mr. Needs-Speech-Classes.
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No, Human, he's trying to point out that the situation in Iraq is too unstable to turn over power quickly. What good would it do to hand everything to an interim government and have them declare themselves dictators, or be shot by one, a month later?
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Macc, you're right on that one. Turning over the leadership of Iraq to the Iraqis right now would be a terrible thing.
1. They have no constitution yet.
2. They have set up no way to elect representatives.
3. They have already booted Al Jazeera out of the country, pointing at a possible lack of freedom of the press. And that means that they may want to squelch dissent rather than work to fix it.
4. The fighting is OBVIOUSLY not over. The Iraqi Army is being rebuilt as a security force, but it wouldn't take much to have a military coup and possible reinstatement of Saddam.
5. The current Iraqi leadership group hasn't shown much initiative in getting the country back on its feet. They're leaving it up to us. We leave now, they may never have a chance to improve.
This is one of the few Bush policies in Iraq that I'm agreeing with. Even a blind squirrel will find a nut now and then.
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In Afghanistan we got out early, turning the government over to the people very quickly.
The result was 20 years of warlord led civil war with a final victory of the Taliban.
Lets not make that mistake again no matter what some Euorpean Bush bashers seeking petty revenge say.
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Yeah, cutting and running after European Colonial exploitation of Africa really worked so well for those manifold countries in Africa didn't it?
Good lord, whether you hate Bush or not, can't people see how thoroughly insane it would be to simply leave and let the U.N. take care of things, as they have so well, in so many other discontented hot spots the world over.
Anyway, sorry for being yet another poster who ignored the original intent of the thread, but I just felt like adding my 2 cents.
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