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Surge Worked... Well Sort of
I find it difficult to view Iraq and Afghanistan in isolation. Gains in Iraq appear to have been offset by a deterioration in Afghanistan. Both have a common context vis-a-vis the WOT and are logically connected. You would be hard pressed to dispute the genesis of either. So why are they treated as separate? I think it impossible to disassociate them from each other. They are merely two battlefields in the same war and are thus inseparable.
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I'm no historian, but if I remember correctly the war in Afghanistan was in direct response to the attacks on 9/11, with a clear mission of killing or capturing and those responsible for those attacks.
The invasion of Iraq on the other hand was a ginned-up war based on false assertions of WMD, made possible through the exploitation of public fears stemming from the attacks on 9/11.
One is a war, the other a distraction from that war.
July 23, 2008 7:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Kaneblues,
You are absolutely correct but that is not the official position of the United States government or the Bush administration. Were your statement accepted as fact then, in theory at least, we would have a different president and vice president. This country is and has been operating under the thoroughly false pretense of the war in Iraq as having been an element of the GWOT. Congress cannot officially alter this without serious implications for the administration and for themselves. This is undoubtedly one of the biggest charades in the history of the world and everyone knows it. When you consider all the U.S. lives lost and dollars tossed out the windows this is nothing less than treason on a grand scale. And the Bush administration and the Congress of the U.S. are equally culpable. The idea that either discharged their duties in an obligatory or lawful way is a complete farce. It is what it is just because the WH and Congress say it is. And if you really want absurd, the citizens of this country have no practical obligation to this government at this point in time. The Bush administration and the Congress have thoroughly and irrevocably broken the public trust.
July 23, 2008 8:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
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