Slowly but surely, the pro-war crowd is growing more and more silent. Their shouts of defiance to peace are now whispers against 'traitors' who sit on the Democrat side of Congress. To the pro-war crowd, victory means a stable Iraqi government and a functioning and efficient Iraqi military/police force to provide for their own defense.
One problem.
Those two things are completely out of our hands. They have to WANT a functioning multiethnic government and the their troops have to WANT to endure and risk kidnapping and murder to protect their own streets.
We're spending approximately $3 billion dollars a week sitting on our ass waiting for them to pull their country together and I don't like that. It's like handing a $5,000 a week welfare check to someone and waiting for them to get a job.
Not likely to happen. We've done all we can do but now 'victory' is in their hands. In fact, if I were a particularly subversive Iraqi, I'd sit back and glean a small moral victory knowing that not only are my invaders dying slowly in my backyard and their national bank account is being drained. Much like the fate that befell, and eventually ruined, the Soviet Union's incursion into Afghanistan.
I support a phased but SPEEDY withdrawl from Iraq.
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