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<blockquote data-quote="Prowler573" data-source="post: 3171104" data-attributes="member: 561023">Beat wants to be controversial today. That&#039;s always interesting...Add to that the behavior evidenced by him in all his years as a known military presence including the years prior to his acquiring control of the country.This was by no means a man that should have ever occupied a position of power to any degree.How many brave men were lost in a single day as we stormed the beach at Normandy? And those that fought and died in WWII are called &quot;The Greatest Generation.&quot;The current crop of grunts are no less brave in my estimation. There hasn&#039;t been a draft in 30+ years so the ones currently serving are there of their own accord for whatever their motivation (service to country and countrymen, wanting to get college paid for, it&#039;s a family tradition, whatever)I think we should be gone before then but it does have to be a gradual thing. If we were to simply pull out completely right now the entire region would collapse into utter chaos and the world at large would be no better off than things were when Hussein still had an iron grip on most things there...Sad but true //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Prowler573, post: 3171104, member: 561023"] Beat wants to be controversial today. That's always interesting... Add to that the behavior evidenced by him in all his years as a known military presence including the years prior to his acquiring control of the country. This was by no means a man that should have ever occupied a position of power to any degree. How many brave men were lost [I]in a single day[/I] as we stormed the beach at Normandy? And those that fought and died in WWII are called "The Greatest Generation." The current crop of grunts are no less brave in my estimation. There hasn't been a draft in 30+ years so the ones currently serving are there of their own accord for whatever their motivation (service to country and countrymen, wanting to get college paid for, it's a family tradition, whatever) I think we should be gone before then but it does have to be a gradual thing. If we were to simply pull out completely right now the entire region would collapse into utter chaos and the world at large would be no better off than things were when Hussein still had an iron grip on most things there... Sad but true [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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