"Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )"
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> Mitchell Holman wrote:
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>> "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )"
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>> > Rich Travsky wrote:
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>> >> > > Just tell us what legistlative battles you are talking about.
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>> >> > I think the biggest one right now is to keep troops in Iraq.
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>> >> No, it should be to get them out.
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>> > We disagree about that. If we remove the troops, Iraq won't be in as
>> > good a position to move forward and build a democracy, in fact it will
>> > roil in anarchy.
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>> So you are saying that US troops will have to
>> stay in Iraq permanently to protect the government
>> from it's own citizens?
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> "Its own citizens", you mean. In any case, no. I don't advocate making
> Iraq the 51st state.
So how long do you insist on US troops doing the job
that Iraqis have no interest in doing for themselves?