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Perhaps you could more accurately say Nixon admitted defeat in 1973. As he took office in January 1969, it wasn't like he wasn't trying to win the war over the four years in the meantime, unless those pilots and operatives in Laos and Cambodia and the mines in Haiphong harbor had been sent by LBJ but were just "lost" and trying to find their way for four years. Remember RMN's "Peace with Honor" campaign platform? Or how he'd "vietnamize" the war, having the South Viets take over a bigger role? Just like how we'll have an Iraqi police force trained and taking over security in the coming new, stable Iraq. Maybe an Iraqi security force will even work as well as the Egyptian military did when it protected Anwar Sadat on his home soil.

Yeah, 'Nam was waaaay different. We did not have Sunni muslims welcoming us there like we do now in Iraq. We didn't have Shi'ite muslims welcoming us there like we do now in Iraq either. Since everyone in 'Nam was our enemy and everyone in Iraq is our friend, fixing Iraq will be a piece of cake to just wrap it up all nice and tidy like GWB planned when he rolled in the tanks in 3/03, for instant democracy. The outcome will be different because in Iraq we already have the local people on our side. Right?

So you think we don't have ANY additional NEW enemies? How many Iraqi families have killed or maimed relatives? How many "thank you" cards have those families sent us? Even if we are "right" and Al Jazeera's coverage is "wrong", will that matter to the millions of future potential extremists in the muslim world that perceive us as being invaders and occupiers of one of their own countries? The perception IS the reality that counts when it (rightly or wrongly) leads to a new generation of extremists. Is it beyond your imagination that maybe, just maybe, GWB has pissed off moderate arabs/muslims, and that he has made recruiting of new militants by al queda-minded movements easier and more productive? If you think such is NOT the case, then you must also think Hamas is about to give up, out of fear of Sharon and the Israelis. Or maybe all the Hamas members have been killed, and no new recuits will come up to replace their losses. Yep, that will happen any day now...

So you think little of our old allies. GWB said to heck with them when he decided to invade. So why will GWB now try to cajole them into helping to pay to police GWB's mess in Iraq? (We don't want your approval of our policies, just your francs and marks to fund security after we're done playing cowboy.)

You'd tell American taxpayers to pay for YEARS of supporting a coming shaky regime in Iraq while we're running Bush's budget deficits, the baby boomers are starting to retire, and let's give another tax cut to the rich. You must think we're all so rich we did NOT need that money for hunting down terrorists over the rest of the globe and at home, and we didn't need that money for increasing our security everywhere other than in Iraq.