Sunday, July 15, 2007

War In Iraq

I don't know what to think right now about the war in Iraq. I believe we were justified in taking out Sadam and getting rid of his torturous regime. But I think it is time for the Iraqi people and armed forces and police to take more of the burden of security on themselves. From what the one Iraqi government official said the USA could leave anytime they want. Well I do not think a full pullout would be a good idea but we should pull out of the cities and have a few bases which missions of support for the police or Iraqi armed forces could be executed. We need to become more of an advisory and support system for the Iraqi forces and less of the front line personnel in this situation.
We also should be manning the borders with Syria and Iran and taking a hard line with any of those people who are coming into Iraq to fight with the insurgency.
I am sick of the bickering going on within the US government over the war. We made a commitment to help the new Iraq government get a strong foothold for a stable Iraq. So all the defeatists from the Democratic party should really just shut their mouths.
I know we have made a difference in Iraq and once the people are working and the economy of that nation recovers it will be a more stable country we just need to keep nudging the Iraqi people to work towards that goal and give them the chance to stand on their own two feet.

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