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Debate:Is the Iraq War a success? (view source)
Revision as of 01:59, December 19, 2007
, 01:59, December 19, 2007→No
''Nobody wanted this, but US policy should recognize the new realities. Just by acting very naturally to safeguard our interests we will be balancing hostile forces against each other, achieving stability at a much lower cost in US blood and treasure. What past imperial statesmen strove for with much cunning and cynicism, the Bush Administration has engendered inadvertently. But the result is exactly he same, and it does make large US forces in place redundant, and even counter-productive.'' <br>[http://www.csis.org/media/csis/congress/ts070123luttwak.pdf The Remaining Options, pg. 4] Edward Luttwak.
''Nobody wanted this, but US policy should recognize the new realities. Just by acting very naturally to safeguard our interests we will be balancing hostile forces against each other, achieving stability at a much lower cost in US blood and treasure. What past imperial statesmen strove for with much cunning and cynicism, the Bush Administration has engendered inadvertently. But the result is exactly he same, and it does make large US forces in place redundant, and even counter-productive.'' <br>[http://www.csis.org/media/csis/congress/ts070123luttwak.pdf The Remaining Options, pg. 4] Edward Luttwak.
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Way, way, way, way, back, before we invaded, the given objectives of the Iraq War was to 'find and make safe all WMD in Iraq', which would enforce a variety of UN Resolutions against Iraq doing this. That was what was told to the UN, the people of the US, and the people of the UK. How many have we actually 'found and made safe'? ZERO. It's an unmitigated failure. The changing of the reason to 'removing dictators' only came about AFTER it became so clear that Iraq had no WMD to 'find and make safe' that even Bush and Blair could see it. [[User:Zmidponk|Zmidponk]] 20:59, 18 December 2007 (EST)
== Yes ==
== Yes ==