The mission is to have a stable, multiethnic government in Iraq. It ends when we're pretty sure that can happen without us.

I dunno, seems pretty clear to me that Bush has made that statement on his mission - repeatedly. Do you read the news? What wasn't clear? Or is this a case of not liking what you're hearing so you cover your ears and refuse to hear it?

But I digress.

Setting a date for withdrawal rather than setting a milestone for the same is just stupid and hazardous. And if you can't see why that's so then it's beyond my ability to explain simple logic to you.


>>>Forget the polls: Common sense dictates that our troops should leave only when local forces
>>>can stabilize the region. I don't understand this move to dictate a date for withdrawal. Makes
>>>no sense; unless, of course, you are so anti-war and anti-Bush that you'd rather see a nonsensical
>>>retreat than to see the mission carried out to it's end.
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>What is the mission? When is its end?
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>Neither of these 2 queastions has answeres the Bush camp can readily provide.
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>>Polls are a wonderful thing, eh?
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>>Actually, they are meaningless unless they are posited scientifically.
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>>Unfortunately, many pollsters are hired to promote an agenda and the questions are phrased in a way that the respondent is trapped into an answer that doesn't reflect his or her thoughts.
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>>Forget the polls: Common sense dictates that our troops should leave only when local forces can stabilize the region. I don't understand this move to dictate a date for withdrawal. Makes no sense; unless, of course, you are so anti-war and anti-Bush that you'd rather see a nonsensical retreat than to see the mission carried out to it's end.
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>>>>Anyone with any sense can see that there is a constitutionally elected government operating in Iraq despite the Democrats' attempts to say that the whole thing is a failure and that civil war is inevitable. Most Americans can see it for what it is and not for how the liberals want to paint it.
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>>> 58% disapprove of GWB performance
>>> 61% disapprove of GWB foreign policy
>>> 61% disapprove of GWB handling of Iraq
>>> 52% say military casualties & cost not worth removing saddam
>>> 53% say decision to attack iraq was the wrong decision
>>> 57% say US should reduce # of troops 35% say maintain troop levels
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>>>I take it that no one should count you in the 58, 61, 61, 52, 53, or 57%. Please report back in 6 months on what corner we just turned over there.