Not at all like Vietnam, no...
Nov. 30th, 2004 05:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lsanderson"Given the weak performance of Iraqi forces, any major withdrawal of American troops for at least a decade would invite chaos, a senior Interior Ministry official, whose name could not be used, said in an interview last week.
South of Baghdad, where American troops are still trying to drive out insurgents after the recent offensive in Falluja, American officers warn their own troops to be prepared to "duck and cover" to avoid stray shots fired by Iraqi recruits."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/30/international/middleeast/30police.html?hp&ex=1101877200&en=7d32e130127ed63c&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Hmm, didn't we have a couple of puppet governments there too that were widely loved? Why if it's ours, isn't it a puppet or a quisling?
South of Baghdad, where American troops are still trying to drive out insurgents after the recent offensive in Falluja, American officers warn their own troops to be prepared to "duck and cover" to avoid stray shots fired by Iraqi recruits."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/30/international/middleeast/30police.html?hp&ex=1101877200&en=7d32e130127ed63c&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Hmm, didn't we have a couple of puppet governments there too that were widely loved? Why if it's ours, isn't it a puppet or a quisling?
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Date: 2004-11-30 01:09 pm (UTC)Let's do some math.
4 years of Bush.
People vote Democrat in disgust.
But, still stuck in Iraq for another four years, so the Republicans still can still claim the Democrats failed (assuming, as I do that the average American has the attention-span of a gnat) and get back in the White House.