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Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and John Cornyn claim that we can still win in Iraq, if we deploy another 50,000 American troops to get the job done. The fact is that it’s impossible to find 50,000 troops to send in for the amount of time it would require.
The deputy chief of staff of the Army has recently said that we have no strategic reserve. We have no ability to find those troops to send in there for an extended period of time. We can’t sustain that kind of a deployment and it’s unrealistic to even make those kind of comments.
The Commandant of the Marine Corps, James Conway warns that the war in Iraq and a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan is putting a critical strain on Marine units. Some are headed back for their fourth tour of duty in Iraq. Marines on active duty serve seven-month combat tours. They're supposed to get 14 months to recover, but the unrelenting violence in Iraq has prevented planned troop withdrawals.
Americans have a tendency to look at our imperialistic wars as a football game, which must be won. It’s time to do what's best for our troops. We made a mistake by getting involved in Iraq, when there was no al Qaeda connection and no weapons of mass destruction. The occupation has been mishandled at every turn, but we are expected to again believe the hawks as we did in Vietnam.
The “domino theory” turned out to be wrong. The Vietnam War cost 58,000 Americans their lives. Those countries that the hawks insisted had be to save ended up becoming non-communist governments and market economies as a result of internal social, historical and economic forces, without our military intervention.
For us to stay, when it's getting worse every day is irresponsible and we need to give the Iraqis the opportunity and incentive to determine their own destiny. The invasion of Iraq was an enormous mistake and our continued presence, according to our own generals and our best experts, is making the situation worse.
The deputy chief of staff of the Army has recently said that we have no strategic reserve. We have no ability to find those troops to send in there for an extended period of time. We can’t sustain that kind of a deployment and it’s unrealistic to even make those kind of comments.
The Commandant of the Marine Corps, James Conway warns that the war in Iraq and a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan is putting a critical strain on Marine units. Some are headed back for their fourth tour of duty in Iraq. Marines on active duty serve seven-month combat tours. They're supposed to get 14 months to recover, but the unrelenting violence in Iraq has prevented planned troop withdrawals.
Americans have a tendency to look at our imperialistic wars as a football game, which must be won. It’s time to do what's best for our troops. We made a mistake by getting involved in Iraq, when there was no al Qaeda connection and no weapons of mass destruction. The occupation has been mishandled at every turn, but we are expected to again believe the hawks as we did in Vietnam.
The “domino theory” turned out to be wrong. The Vietnam War cost 58,000 Americans their lives. Those countries that the hawks insisted had be to save ended up becoming non-communist governments and market economies as a result of internal social, historical and economic forces, without our military intervention.
For us to stay, when it's getting worse every day is irresponsible and we need to give the Iraqis the opportunity and incentive to determine their own destiny. The invasion of Iraq was an enormous mistake and our continued presence, according to our own generals and our best experts, is making the situation worse.
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