On Apr 4, 12:51*am, Kurt Ullman wrote:
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*"Robert Green" wrote:





"harry" wrote
Kurt Ullman wrote:
"Robert Green" wrote:

Shinseki has plenty of experience and was not cowed by strong
opposition. He
basically got sacked during Bush's adminstration for daring to tell
Rummy
and the Congress that we didn't have enough boots on the ground in Iraq
for
the war to come to a swift conclusion. Guess he was right.

Nah. We had plenty to bring the war to a swift conclusion. It is the
peace that is giving us so much trouble.

So, *they reckoned on perpetual war? *There was no peace to follow it?

Methinks Kurt is pulling your leg by using a political speak. *Like
Clinton's definitions of "sex" and "it."

* * Not at all. Those are two very different things. The war is when one
is killing people and breaking things. The peace is when you are trying
to put things back into some manageable form. We did a bang up job (so
to speak) of the first part. We have had troubles with the second.
Failing to win the peace in WWI (for example) pretty much made WWII
inevitable. *We did a better job with the peace in WWII. Not great, but
better. *If we had had an Iraqi version of the Marshall Plan in place,
maybe it would have gone better.

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There was no war as it was not declared, therefore it cannot be ended.
There was illegal miltary action based on lies and deception. That
action continues. Mission not accomplished.
Republican halfwit.