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Sen. Warner Calls for Pullouts By Winter

Posted by Little Miss Know it All

August 24, 2007 |

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Well, it grows.  Virginia Senator Warner, a prominent Republican, returned this week from a short visit to Iraq, and called on the President to begin withdrawing troops as early as Christmas.  His reasoning?  The Iraq government is incapable of leading and needs to be held accountable for their failures. 

 I’ve agreed with this for a long time.  Simply put, the Iraqis don’t know how to lead or run a government on their own.  Sadaam, for all intents and purposes, was similar to an occupying force.  A member of the minority, he imposed minority rule and dictatorship onto the nation.  There was no planning for multiple races or faiths.  There was no government, simply Sadaam.  There was no military strategy, foreign policy, domestic growth planning.  It was only Sadaam.  The Iraqis just don’t know how to stand on their own, so they are very happy to continue with us doing it for them.  Its what they are used to!

 Maybe I missed it, but are there government builders over there?  When the wall fell in Berlin, we sent government-building experts over to teach local and state governments how to plan policy, how to build a system that would support itself.  One of my own fine professors, a Dr Dolive, was an advisor to Chancellor Kohl on that very subject.  She spent two years working with small municipalities in Eastern Germany, teaching them how to establish municipal governments.  Is anyone teaching the Iraqis this, or are we too busy posturing for the cameras and setting up an ineffectual national parliament, then proclaiming our job done?


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