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Coalition’s future in Iraq

N_stewart_iraq_061101Video: Former British commander in Bosnia Col. Bob Stewart talks with NBC News about the coalition’s future in Iraq and the danger of an al-Qaida takeover of the country.

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Maybe they should have listened to the myriad experts who predicted much of the big problems with the Iraqi Debacle.

Man...it's like Bush broke into my house and set it aflame...then told me I couldn't 'cut and run' and I had to stand there trying to put it out with the spray-nozzle from the kitchen sink.

Good video

How could so many supposedly smart, experienced, knowledgeable people, have gotten it so wrong? Haven;t we learned anything from VietNam, Somalia, Beirut, WWI and II. Do we know how to wage peace or do we only know how to wage war.

The reporter failed to ask Col. Bob Steward if he believed that Winston Churchill should have stayed the course at Dunkirk rather than cut and run.

There is a difference between cutting your losses and cut and run. The reason we are in this mess is because commanders such as Col Steward don't really know what to do!

There is a long observed italian proverb which, roughy translated says..." if you leave the old for the new, you know what you loose but dont know what you find..."
If this proverb is applied to the present situation in Iraq, we can safely say..."Now we know.......!

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