>>The problem is that we didn't go in with an exit strategy. For the betterment of all concerned, we need to develop one.
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>>How many troops won't die because we tell the Iraqi's, "You've got to take care of yourselves?"
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>I believe the DOD has an exit strategy. The fact that they aren't telling the terrorists what it is disturbs some, but not me. Once they feel the country is stabilized, we'll pull out. We've only lost slightly more than 2k troops (including vehicle accidents, etc.) while the terrorists have lost numbers too high to count. As I've said many times before, we need to get the Iraqis in place and comfortable running things and then pull out.
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>You might have noticed even Joe Lieberman said today that things are much better over there than most dems want to admit. He agrees with what Bush is doing.

John,

While the biggest problem isn't the exit strategy, it is why did we go out there without one in the first place?