The Iraq Mandate
Robert Dreyfuss
...And finally, the Iraqi resistance. Without the emergence of the nationalist resistance in Iraq in the fall of 2003, there would have been no war, no antiwar movement and no landslide of 2006. Should Democrats, Republicans, generals or bureaucrats get cold feet about leaving Iraq, they'd better realize: Iraq's insurgency isn't going away until the last American soldier leaves Iraq. Is this enough to shatter the stone Sphinx and get President Bush to leave Iraq? I don't know. Short of an outright act of defiance by the Democrats, such as cutting off funds for the war, the president can stand firm. He says he will, and he might. We've already sunk a trillion dollars into his illegal war of aggression, and it has cost thousands of American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi ones. It's entirely possible that a thousand more Americans, and a few hundred thousand more Iraqis, will die between now and November 2008....
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...And finally, the Iraqi resistance. Without the emergence of the nationalist resistance in Iraq in the fall of 2003, there would have been no war, no antiwar movement and no landslide of 2006. Should Democrats, Republicans, generals or bureaucrats get cold feet about leaving Iraq, they'd better realize: Iraq's insurgency isn't going away until the last American soldier leaves Iraq. Is this enough to shatter the stone Sphinx and get President Bush to leave Iraq? I don't know. Short of an outright act of defiance by the Democrats, such as cutting off funds for the war, the president can stand firm. He says he will, and he might. We've already sunk a trillion dollars into his illegal war of aggression, and it has cost thousands of American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi ones. It's entirely possible that a thousand more Americans, and a few hundred thousand more Iraqis, will die between now and November 2008....
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