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Originally Posted by SailorMitch
had we not been diverted by the decider's fascination with Saddam, who posed no threat to us, perhaps we could have done it right in afghanistan and pakistan wiped out al qeada and obl there in a lot less than 5 years and not have bankrupted the treasury in the process. then we'd have the resources handy to fulfill your dream and invade iran.
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Ahh!
I forgot about the liberal mind's casual acceptance of invading our Ally's sovereign territory. I hear it's much easier than invading our enemy's territory. Only the liberal mind could think it justifiable to invade an Ally's territory for the purpose of the capture of one man instead of considering the fact that, that one man is hunkered down in a cave some where living an 18th century existence and there's nowhere else on the planet he dares call home. Hard to believe that warmongerers such as us on the right over-looked the potential for invading Pakistan.
Of course, these are the same libs who decried any possibility of success in Afghanistan based upon the Red Army's experience there. As usual, the US military has put paid to that nonsense.
As for bankrupting the Treasury wasn't it just last week that you all were pillorying Rumsfeld for attempting to fight the war on the cheap? and it actually has been a pretty cheap war to fight, both in lives and dollars. I don't see any signs from the liberal left that they are overly concerned with not having money for significant expansions of the nanny state. (see presidential campaign of B. Obama, D-Ill.)
I don't think we really need to invade Iran, although it might speed up the inevitable. Funding dissident groups and targeted strikes at anything remotely nuclear would be adequate in my book. Come to think of it, it's an almost perfect time for another Iranian revolution, this one democratic in nature. Who's going to come to their aid?
See Mitch, another post focused on the events of five years ago. It's 2008 and time to clean the millennium confetti up from the living room unless you want to conserve resources by vacuuming at the end of the decade.