The only way to lose this fight is to quit--and quitting isn't an option *

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Cheney: Strategy for Success in Iraq Is Working

"This nation has made a decision: We will stand by our friends and engage our enemies with the goal of a victory," he said. "And as the president said in the State of the Union (address), 'We are in this fight to win, and we are winning.'"

http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_11905.shtml

*speech: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/02/20060228-2.html


US soldiers from the 1-506 RCT 101st Airborne Division run for cover during sporadic fighting in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, February 2006. A wide-ranging poll of US troops serving in Iraq made public found that 72 percent believe the United States should exit Iraq within a year.




US soldiers from Able Company 1-506 Infantry 101st Airborne Division kick down a door in order to search through a house as part of operation "Band of Brothers,"




A slightly wounded Iraqi boy stands in front of the partially destroyed al-Hurriya Sunni mosque in Baghdad.




Iraqis rush a burned Iraqi into a hospital in Baghdad. A series of bombings killed 64 people, including 25 in a car bomb attack outside a Baghdad Shiite mosque, raising fears of a new round of sectarian violence in Iraq.





Iraqis inspect damage at the site where a car bomb exploded in central Baghdad.





Cars burn at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's Karrada district.





Nine bullet-riddled bodies, including a Sunni Muslim tribal sheik, were found Tuesday morning in Diyala province of Baqouba.

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1. Cheney's friends are my enemies

and the enemies of the US. And they are losing.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. "quitting isn't an option" He isn't kidding, billions have been spent

on permanent bases. "Let them have their silly little civil wars, we aren't going anywhere. it belongs to US"

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4. Will Pitt:

The Most Dangerous Days

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x546638

[jimshoes]

3. Nonsense Dick,

There are literally many dozens of ways of losing this fight. Frankly, quitting may be the only way of not losing. Perhaps we could interest the Iraqi's in quail hunting. At least it would give them something else to shoot at.