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rjbny62 Donating Member (203 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:10 AM
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Sen Alexander - we actually won the war before we lost the war
Edited on Tue Jan-25-05 10:42 AM by rjbny62
Everyone defines success differently. Apparently the republicans think that they succeeded before they realized that they didn't.

http://nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Congress-Iraq.html

``We had succeeded in the war, but we miscalculated severely what would happen after the war,'' said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. ``It's harder than we thought. We don't need an exit strategy; we need a success strategy, but we may have a different definition of success.''

How is this war a success by any definition?
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MaineYooper Donating Member (555 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:11 AM
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1. well, to paraphrase John Kerry,
we actually won the war before we lost the war.
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Willy Lee Donating Member (925 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:19 AM
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4. Good one! nt
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fryguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:23 AM
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5. LOL
nice!
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rjbny62 Donating Member (203 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:39 AM
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6. great way to put it, let's get the message out
hope you don't mind, but I'm editing the title of the thread
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MaineYooper Donating Member (555 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:42 AM
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7. no problem
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:14 AM
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2. Hooray, hooray! War is over!
That's what he's saying, right?

Bring 'em home!

:P
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:18 AM
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3. I succeeded in learning to fly outside my 10th story window...
..but severely miscalculated on my landing...

:eyes:

This fella's an idiot.
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ticapnews Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 11:00 AM
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8. Let's ask America's Mayor what went wrong...
Rudy G: I blame the troops.
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