The Iraqis are becoming better off already.
Food and power and water is available in the cities.
People are more free
The Baathist supporters are increasingly isolated and have been attacked multiple time in the last few days, using intel gathered from Iraqis who see their future in a Baathist free Iraq.
The occupations of Japan and germany were not cake walks, and it was sometime before order and progress returned to those nations.
Cleaning up a nation smothered under tyranny for 28+ years, like Iraq, will not be any easier.
For some to perceive and focus on any trouble as proof of general failure is naive to say the least.
The Iraqis now, with the help of American resolve and strength, the best chace they will get for the forseeable future to build a civil society.
That is not a quagmire.
Ed
Current Events » in reply to re: Let's take these one at a time
The non-Quagmire
The whole thread (24 posts)
- WMD Crediibility Editorials
- Notice the CYA maneuvers again...
- Digging Up The Dirt
- Until you address the failed credibility of your other claims
- What other claims?
- Looting, Quagmire, Saddam doesn't matter, economy started sinking under Bush, etc.
- What other claims?
- Rumsfeld on March 30, 2003 - GWB on WMD on February 8, 2003