RacerJim
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ORIGINAL: jin99 American domestic terrorists already shot two guards to death in the Holocaust museum and assassinated an abortion clinic. Barack Obama receives 1,200 death threats per day, as compared to Bush's 400. Either Obama is 3 times more popular, or much of that is race-motivated. The withdraw was decided after 2 things. 1. The majority of the American people no longer wanted to fight this war and withdrew their mandate by electing a president who promised to end it 2. The democratically elected Iraqi government told Bush through the US ambassador that they want the US to leave their soil, on a clearly defined time table, published in the immediate future and to leave no later than 2010 or so--and Bush agreed. Unless you want to flout the will of the legitimate Iraqi government, you must leave. The war, in case you have not noticed, had been won if victory is defined by the destruction of Al-Qaeda forces in Iraq. It is dead. The rest of the sectarian stuff does not concern the US. If the Iraq government need help, the US had already given them the number to call--if there is need, the US forces will be recalled on the initiative of the Iraqi state. In case you have not noticed, too, the war in Afghanistan's withdraw time table is subject to change if there is a need-to, as Robert Gates briefed the Congress. Obama is not one to stick to a deadline if the job isn't done. Such as the stimulus plan and health care reform. I'm curious to know why you didn't include the possibility that Obama is 3 times more unpopular than Bush as a reason he receives 1,200 death threats per day compared to Bush's 400. Kool-aid impaired? The vote was 52% vs 46%, so only a 6% majority of Americans elected Obama. According to your own opinion, in case you didn't realize it, the war in Iraq was over BEFORE Obama took office. Funny, I don't recall ever hearing Obama, anyone in his adminstration, or any Obamabot crediting Bush with winning the war in Iraq. Also in case you haven't noticed, Obama's approval rating is now below 40% even according to center/center-left polls/surveys and 60% believe he is taking the country in the wrong direction. Such is we the people's opinion of his stimulus plan and health care reform, and everything else.
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