I just finished reading the text of President Bush's address. Sounds an awful lot like what Nixon tried in Vietnam. Vietnamization didn't work in Vietnam, I doubt that Iraqization will work in Iraq.
Mr Bush said "The consequences of failure are clear: Radical Islamic extremists would grow in strength and gain new recruits." What exactly does he think is happening now? I've heard this all before. If we pull out of Vietnam, the whole of Indo China will fall and we will be fighting the communist in Hawaii. Things did not turn out as they predicted then and I suspect that Nixon's bunch was at least as smart as the Bush bunch. Sooner or later, we have to leave and when we do, what is gonna happen will happen. Us sending 20,000 more troops over there to serve as targets is only gonna prolong the situation and get more brave US soilders killed or wounded.
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