Viewpoint: Stop Saying, "Support Our Troops"
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Disguising policy proposals as sentimental appeals to the well-being of American troops does little to advance the debate on Iraq
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While American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are fighting some of the most intense battles of the war against radical Islamic terrorists, our national debate on the future of the conflict has descended to platitudes of campaign rhetoric and a pathological, partisan refusal on both sides of that debate to acknowledge the harsh realities and difficult choices that confront us.
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The Democrats' internecine squabbling over the war is a family argument about tactics, not a showdown over principle. The left should remember that.
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Democrats need to do something dramatic, even histrionic, to dispel the perception they are powerless to stop the Iraq War.
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For months it was all the rage on the campaign trail. Day after day, stop after stop, the war was the focus of all things presidential. Now it's little more than a distant echo in most stump speeches. Democrats are generally saying little more than, "We should get out as soon as we can." Republicans hard mention it.
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Reentering history s arena. The scheduled partial U.S. troop withdrawals from Europe were long overdue; some of us had become shrill and hoarse in calling for them over the past few years .
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The recent announcement that the Bush administration will update the deployment of 70,000 American troops should be viewed primarily through a military prism, though there are political and economic ...
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Republican support for the Iraq war is slipping by the day. After four years of combat and more than 3,560 U.S. deaths, two Republican senators previously reluctant to challenge President Bush on the war announced they could no longer support the deployment of 157,000 troops and asked the president to begin bringing them home.
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Be careful what you say and whom you help -- especially when it comes to the Iraq war and the Iraqi government.
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When I suggested in a recent column that a problematic 5 percent of employees account for 75 percent of the IT support burden, I expected a wave of âright on!â letters from IT support staffers. After the column was published, the letters did come â most of them disagreeing with my premise, with one reader suggesting that the real whiner was yours truly. I still think itâs outside the realm of overextended IT departments to provide training on basic computing skills (which I defined as âmanaging and finding files, and basic working knowledge of suites such as MS Officeâ). But my thinking was adjusted a bit by the thoughtful feedback.
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QUESTION: Mr. President, American forces are gearing up for what appears to be a major offensive in Fallujah over the next several days. I'm wondering if you could tell us what the objective is, what the stakes are there for the United States, for the Iraqi people, and the Iraqi elections coming up in January?
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Go ahead and be contrarian. Just make sure you're right.
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The Iraq Study Group's strong critique has put the White House on the defensive. So why aren't the Democrats cheering?
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Withdrawing U.S. troops won't end the war. But if done right, it could save American lives, contain the violence and restore U.S. credibility.
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Even while the public's ambivalence about the war has steadily grown, the will to help troops has steadily risen.
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Talk of withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq is simmering on Capitol Hill.
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Cynthia Burks doesn't just talk about supporting her country's troops serving in Iraq.