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DesertRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-25-06 09:05 PM
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Cut and Run, the Only Brave Thing to Do ...a letter from Michael Moore
Friends,

Tomorrow marks the day that we will have been in Iraq longer than we were in all of World War II.

That's right. We were able to defeat all of Nazi Germany, Mussolini, and the entire Japanese empire in LESS time than it's taken the world's only superpower to secure the road from the airport to downtown Baghdad.

And we haven't even done THAT. After 1,347 days, in the same time it took us to took us to sweep across North Africa, storm the beaches of Italy, conquer the South Pacific, and liberate all of Western Europe, we cannot, after over 3 and 1/2 years, even take over a single highway and protect ourselves from a homemade device of two tin cans placed in a pothole. No wonder the cab fare from the airport into Baghdad is now running around $35,000 for the 25-minute ride. And that doesn't even include a friggin' helmet.

Is this utter failure the fault of our troops? Hardly. That's because no amount of troops or choppers or democracy shot out of the barrel of a gun is ever going to "win" the war in Iraq. It is a lost war, lost because it never had a right to be won, lost because it was started by men who have never been to war, men who hide behind others sent to fight and die.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=202
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rgbecker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-25-06 09:32 PM
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1. Right On Michael!
Time to shut it down. No sense in carrying on. Hit the Road Jack. Move on. Cut the crap. Bring it on Home.....
Oh Ok, One more dead GI THEN can we cut the loses and get back to the war on terror?
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brettdale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-25-06 10:10 PM
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2. Good Points
Edited on Sat Nov-25-06 10:11 PM by brettdale
Just wait till Saddam is hung, what we are seeing now, will be nothing.
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eridani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-26-06 03:44 AM
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5. I don't think it will make much difference except as an opportunity--
--for the neocon thugs to crow. Saddam is irrelevant to the lives of average people in Iraq.
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-25-06 11:08 PM
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3. k&r (nt)
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-26-06 01:08 AM
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4. I've been saying all along that the best sound byte
the Dems need to use against the right wing is, "You say that we want to 'cut and run', well, maybe that would mean something from someone else, but not from someone who 'RAN AND HID' during Vietnam when they got the call to protect their country.."

Feel free to use that in Congress if anyone is reading this :)

Keep hammering them Michael, and give me a call, you owe me one, and you know it :)
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DesertRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-27-06 04:31 PM
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6. kick
kicking for anyone who hasn't seen this. Michael Moore nails it.
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