Kissinger argues against early US pullout from Iraq

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Henry shows he's as dumb and arrogant as ever.

WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (AFP) - Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said Friday that military victory in Iraq was essential to any US exit strategy and warned that an early US troop withdrawal was "a potentially fateful event."

"Because of the axiom that guerrillas win if they do not lose, stalemate is unacceptable," said Kissinger, who drew parallels with the Vietnam War, while cautioning that "the military challenge in Iraq is more elusive."

"American strategy, including a withdrawal process," he said in a commentary published Friday by The Washington Post, "will stand or fall not on whether it maintains the existing security situation but on whether the capacity to improve it is enhanced.

"Victory over the insurgency is the only meaningful exit strategy."

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[formerrepuke]

1. And he's basing this on what personal experience?...Oh, yeah...it's

good that we didn't pull out of SE Asia too soon- or else all of Vietnam and its neighbors would turn commie... Oh, wait.

[FighttheFuture]

2. Well... that really seals it then. Let's get the HELL OUT NOW!!!

[Barrett808]

3. This should please Chris Hitchens

Did I say "please"? I meant "confuse."

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. This is Kissinger, who kept the U.S. in Vietnam

four years longer than necessary?

(He turned down an offer from the North Vietnamese in 1968 only to accept an identical offer four years later. Half the U.S. casualties occurred between 1968 and 1973.)

[3waygeek]

5. What did you expect?

War criminals have to stick together.

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. Ok, this is all the proof we need that we are right about this.

Get out of Iraq NOW!!!!