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Over five (5) years. Ridiculous.
Way too long. Taking so much time indicates certain failure.
Obviously things are going all wrong. It was a mistake to try. We
must scrap the plan and try something else... or we will be
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Let's review the overall timeline.
They started in September of
'86, by agreeing to create some sort of guiding document for the
emerging nation. It was not until December of '91 that leadership
was able to write, agree upon, and get the document ratified. |
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Over five years had passed and
still the nation was in disarray. So much remained to do... elect officials,
establish bureaucracies, build an economy, get the malcontents under
control so the majority of the people could make progress. This new
nation will surely fail. |
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But it did not fail. It grew into
the United States of America. Certainly the years 1786 - 1791 were
difficult. However people with character persevered and constructed their
vision into reality. |
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Iraq was
liberated on April 9, 2003. It was liberated after 33
years' being controlled by one of the most ruthless dictators of the 20th century.
Most of Iraq's 26 million people had not experienced any other
leadership. Iraq's people had been repressed into poverty, held
uneducated and under constant threat of torture, imprisonment and
death by Saddam Hussein. |
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It has been three (3) years since
Iraq's people were liberated. They have voted for representatives
who have written a constitution and the government is being
constructed. By some measures they are proceeding faster than early
Americans. |
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Today it seems that every media
reporter and many ordinary people have become experts on political
science, philosophy, government operations, and military strategy,
tactics, logistics, manpower needs and just about everything else.
Although self-appointed, they know that they know all. And too
many of them are lecturing about how they knew how back then and
they could have
done everything right. |
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It is pathetic that the media and
so many ordinary people cannot do their own jobs as well as the US
military and even some of the freshly-liberated Iraqi people. It is
especially pathetic that this criticism aptly applies to members of
the US Congress. |
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