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Originally Posted by incommin
Is not the continued commitment of US forces to Iraq the key here? That and making the Iraqi people believe we will not desert them like we left the govt of South Vietnam and other places around the world........
Jim
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Pretty hard to do when half of the US Congresscrtitters and all of one side's POTUS candidates are promising to get us out faster than their opponents.
I think it finally hit a point where the Iraqi people, or at least a large number of them decided that AQI had overstayed their welcome, overdone the atrocity bit on the locals, and that we would help them (at least for a couple more years) to get rid of AQI.
TR
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