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Old 08-08-2014, 09:16 PM
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I'm glad to see that our president is finally taking some action to at least help those poor souls being held captive on a mountain with no food, water or shelter.

I don't know what the answer is beyond that, but we spent a lot of money and gave a lot lot of lives to oust the Hussein regime and install a democratically elected government. Are we now supposed to sit back and allow all of that work and sacrifice to got to waste?

I don't like the idea of another ground war, but I also don't like the idea of parents, wives and husbands of those who gave their lives to bring democracy to Iraq seeing that their loved ones died for no reason.

Back in the 80s, Colin Powell told GHW Bush that if we invaded Iraq, we would own it. A decade later he supported the UN action and I'm afraid that he was right. We invaded it and now we own it.
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