Originally posted by SkyRock
cut and run???????? We got wipped by the war of attrition bro!
It's over and we lost already?
1. Get rid of Saddam. ....Check
2. Get rid of WMD. Done before we started, so .... Check
3. Train Iraqi security
a. Train some 200,000 ... check
b. Train some more ... coming
4. Rebuild Iraqi infrastructure
a. Add 8 Gigawatts to electrical grid ... check
b. Rebuild water and sewer to better than under SH ... check
c. Rebuild over 2500+ schools .... check
d. Distribute textbooks for same .... check
e. Train 30k+ teachers ...... check
5. Set up a Democracy:
a. Write a constituion.... check
b. Ratify same ..... check
c. Hold parlimentary elections.... Dec 15th, Check
This is the picture of defeat?
6. Hold casualties to a minimum.
a. 18 months and 2100 dead. Horribly unfortunate, but less than we lost on Utah and Omaha on D1. Less than a third of what we lost on Iwo. We didn't stop then...
it's about 1/30th of what we lost in three days in Pennsylvania. It's time that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation shall have a new birth of freedom...