Huffington - Iraq: A Handy Rebuttal to "We Have to Finish the Job"

[MethuenProgressive]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/iraq-a-handy-rebuttal-to_b_19706.html

As if the job of building a stable Iraq (let alone a truly democratic one) could be accomplished by the use of military force. If that were the case, wouldn’t we have gotten our employee of the month plaque three years ago and moved on to spreading democracy to the next county?
Yet the “we can’t leave now” argument has somehow congealed into the conventional wisdom.
So, for those of you who find yourself confronted with this idiocy, here is my handy, two-part “elevator message” rebuttal to the CW:
One: withdrawing our troops from Iraq does not mean abandoning Iraq.
Two: Withdrawing our troops from Iraq does mean eliminating the insurgency’s best recruitment tool.
You should be able to get that out between the lobby and the mezzanine.
>big snip<
Yes, we owe it to the people of Iraq to finish the job. But to finish the job, we first must leave. Staying there guarantees never winning and never finishing the job.

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[WhiteTara]

1. kick

:kick:

[Ian David]

2. I knew an old woman who swallowed a fly...

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

3. K & R, nicely done, Arianna. To finish the job, we MUST leave...

MKJ