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When will the war be officially won?

Hi,

I'm new to this forum and have a question that has been really bothering me lately,
and I can't seem to find a satisfying answer anywhere...
so I thought I would try here.

I live in a small mid-Wisconsin town and our local newspaper's letters to the editor have been getting to me more & more each week.
(I'm sure the following situation isn't too much different in "Anytown" America)
This debate (political cross fire) has been going ever since president Bush has declared a "War on Terror".
People are very passionate about their feelings in regard to this "war",
but the thing that has been confusing me lately is the real definition of what we are fighting for?

The most recent letters are either saying;
We need to get out of this war in Iraq as soon as possible,
stop the senseless killing, and end all of the wasteful spending.
The whole thing was a mistake in the first place..so let's just get out now!!
(I'm basically paraphrasing here, but you get the general idea)

or

We have to stay the course! You can't leave until the job is done.
It is disrespectful to the soldiers that have given their lives to pull out of this war before it has been won!
(again..You get the idea)

My question is...
Both sides seem to be talking about this war in terms of winning and losing,
but what (or who) is going to determine who has won?
When will we be able to look at this war and say that we have officially won it?
It isn't like their is going to be a white flag waving around to tell us that it is over,
so win or lose...
When would the game be declared officially over??

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Hi,

I'm new to this forum and have a question that has been really bothering me lately,
and I can't seem to find a satisfying answer anywhere...
so I thought I would try here.

I live in a small mid-Wisconsin town and our local newspaper's letters to the editor have been getting to me more & more each week.
(I'm sure the following situation isn't too much different in "Anytown" America)
This debate (political cross fire) has been going ever since president Bush has declared a "War on Terror".
People are very passionate about their feelings in regard to this "war",
but the thing that has been confusing me lately is the real definition of what we are fighting for?

The most recent letters are either saying;
We need to get out of this war in Iraq as soon as possible,
stop the senseless killing, and end all of the wasteful spending.
The whole thing was a mistake in the first place..so let's just get out now!!
(I'm basically paraphrasing here, but you get the general idea)

or

We have to stay the course! You can't leave until the job is done.
It is disrespectful to the soldiers that have given their lives to pull out of this war before it has been won!
(again..You get the idea)

My question is...
Both sides seem to be talking about this war in terms of winning and losing,
but what (or who) is going to determine who has won?
When will we be able to look at this war and say that we have officially won it?
It isn't like their is going to be a white flag waving around to tell us that it is over,
so win or lose...
When would the game be declared officially over??

Todd
Good question. The answer is this: the War on Terror will never be won. You might as well declare war on hate, for you will have exactly the same results. However, declaring war on terror was brilliant. The neocons knew it was a war that would never really be won, but that it would legitimize the government's expansion of power and erosion of our liberties here at home.
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When will the war be officially won?
It never officialy began.
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When would the game be declared officially over??

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Even if one considers a "war on terror" can never end, that does not mean the war powers are endless. The idea that the war on terrorism is endless is not new, but how one uses the war powers is. My Democratic Senator wrote me back and said, the authorization was "sufficient." No "neocon" was needed for the lukewarm "liberal" arts of war of containment and Oil for Food on the backs of disenfranchised slaves.

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Obama would have limited the war to those who actually attacked us even after it was clear to his church that the reasons for the war were not the actual attackers:

"When John McCain said we could just muddle through in Afghanistan, I argued for more resources and more troops to finish the fight against the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and made clear that we must take out Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants if we have them in our sights."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us...ewanted=4&_r=1

July 1997, South Movement, "the path of Jihad and proper action": "Those who desire to face up to the Zionists conspiracies, intransigence, and aggressiveness must proceed towards the advance centers of capabilities in the greater Arab homeland and to the centers of the knowledge, honesty and sincerity with whole heartiness if the aim was to implement a serious plan to save others from their dilemma or to rely on those capable centers; well-known for their positions regarding the enemy, to gain precise concessions from it with justified maneuvers even if such centers including Baghdad not in agreement with those concerned, over the objectives and aims of the required maneuvers." (On the 29th anniversary of Iraq's national day (the 17th of July 1968 revolution). President Saddam Hussein made an important comprehensive and nation wide address) President Saddam's speech on July 17 1997

December 1997, South Movement: "'If the United Nations fails to respond to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (meeting in Tehran) then the Muslim world must act and defy these sanctions,' Farrakhan told an audience of union representatives in the Iraqi capital." (Louis Farrakhan) South News Dec 12 1997

September, 16th, 2001: "Whenever a nation becomes great and powerful by God’s Permission, as America has; whenever a nation becomes the undisputed ruler of the world, as America has, by Allah’s Permission; when a nation becomes the only remaining superpower, having the power to destroy other nations and people by the tens of thousands and millions, as Allah has permitted America the power to do, and that nation then has a spiritual lapse and begins to sink into moral decline, the Qur’an teaches that Allah (God) raises a messenger, but he raises that messenger from among the poor and the abject to guide and to warn the great and the powerful.

Allah (God) knows that the powerful will not heed a warning coming from their ex-slave or from the weak or from the abject, so the Qur’an teaches that Allah (God) then seizes that nation with distress and affliction, that it might humble itself. For only in humility can the proud and the powerful heed the Guidance of God, which is mercy and grace from Himself. Allah (God) used this tragedy, hopefully, to bring a great nation to Himself." (Louis Farrakhan)
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But, like I said, we understand." (BY MARY MITCHELL Sun-Times Columnist)
Why Obama 'denounced' Farrakhan :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Mary Mitchell

I understand that has not be refuted by Obama, and Mary Mitchel is still a fully employed Black mouthpiece, so Obama is a liar and most black people are bad.

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It is a fact that the war could not end without removing the reason for the war:

One Iraq, Two Iraq, Three Iraq

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Keeping Sunni Saddam in power to ethically suppress the scary Shiites, would be a violation of Article One of the United Nations (of tyrants too) Charter. Obama and the Democratic Party monsters, by their own words, would have continued the war, which started with Saddam and the fatwa in response to that war, until Saddam retired of old age:

"So we attacked Afghanistan, we took out the government that supported the people that attacked us and then, in my view, in a strategic blunder, moved against Saddam Hussein. He was contained. Yes he was an unpleasant person. Yes he was a potential danger like every tyrant I guess is. But he couldn’t directly strike the United States and he was performing the function of a ‘cork in the bottle’ in the Persian Gulf containing the power of Iran. We removed him.” (Transcript of Stewart Varney interview of General Wesley Clark on Your World Cavuto, Fox News) http://www.debatepolitics.com/polls/...post1057590153 (The Oreo Cookie, and containment?)

"Iran is proceeding now in ways that were unimaginable until we invaded Iraq and basically did what they said, which is provide the Shia with the ability to do what they haven't been able to do in 1200 years, gain a position of dominance over the Sunni." (Democrat, Sen. KERRY, Obama supporter) http://www.debatepolitics.com/middle...post1057662678 (Talk to Iran!)

"But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history. I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of Al Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars." Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need |

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The game can only be over when the magical "they" terrorists are defeated, which can only come after those nations that say "They should, rather, be reassured and helped to save themselves, and their surroundings," are no longer in power:

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“On the basis of what we said about Iraq while confronting aggressions, the world now needs to abort the US aggressive schemes, including its aggression on the Afghan people, which must stop.

Again we say that when someone feels that he is unjustly treated, and no one is repulsing or stopping the injustice inflicted on him, he personally seeks ways and means for lifting that justice. Of course, not everyone is capable of finding the best way for lifting the injustice inflicted on him. People resort to what they think is the best way according to their own ideas, and they are not all capable of reaching out for what is beyond what is available to arrive to the best idea or means.

To find the best way, after having found their way to God and His rights, those who are inflicted by injustice need not to be isolated from their natural milieu, or be ignored deliberately, or as a result of mis-appreciation, by the officials in this milieu. They should, rather, be reassured and helped to save themselves, and their surroundings. It is only normal to say that punishment is a necessity in our world, because what is a necessity in the other world must also be necessary in our world on Earth. But, the punishment in the other world is faire and just, and the prophets and messengers of God (peace be upon them all) conducted punishment and called for it in justice, and not on the basis of suspicions and whims.” (Saddam Hussein Shabban 13, 1422 H. October 29, 2001""

“Once again, we say that, injustice and the pressure that results from it on people lead to explosions. As explosions are not always organized, it is to be expected that they may harm those who make them and others. The events of September 11, should be seen on this basis, and on the basis of imbalanced reactions, on the part of governments accused of being democratic, if the Americans are sure that these were carried out by people from abroad.

To concentrate not on what is important, but rather on what is the most important, we say again that after having seen that the flames of any fire can expand to cover all the world, it first and foremost, needs justice based on fairness. The best and most sublime expression of this is in what we have learned from what God the Al Mighty ordered to be, or not to be.” (Saddam Hussein Shabban 13, 1422 H. October 29, 2001.)
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Of the reasons outlined in the fatwas (Islamifacist legal documents) for the war, only our presence in the region remains; Iraq is liberated, sanctions lifted, and the dying Iraqi children Al Quacka claimed was a reason for the war in the 1996 fatwa are being killed by the Al Quacka when they come of age and apply to be a police officer in Iraq.

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The game can end, but it is beneficial to the fifth column if they get "regime change" like Ramsey Clark called for at the first International A.n.s.w.e.r rally where they chanted "FREE PALESTINE! FREE PALESTINE! FREE PALESTINE!"

September 2001: "Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General...David Muller, South Movement, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia"
(Workers World Oct. 4, 2001: Join a new anti-war coalition) Workers World Oct. 4, 2001: Join a new anti-war coalition

"The African-American Democrat is being groomed for national leadership. His speech at the Democratic convention, a homily on hard work, individual responsibility and the American dream, would have been well received at a Republican convention not so many years ago. But in 2004, Obama is passed off as a 'progressive' politician." (Democratic keynote speaker Barack Obama calls for missile strikes on Iran) Democratic keynote speaker Barack Obama calls for missile strikes on Iran

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Freedom is what we are fighting for, like it was called "Operation Iraqi Freedom," freedom from tyranny and the mini-tyranny of terrorism. And unless you support freedom for the scary Shiite majority in Iraq, in keeping with Article One of the United Nations (of tyrants too) Charter, you do not support freedom. We the people are fighting for freedom, Obama was not. The game or war can officially be over when nations are not supporting terrorism, and terror is simply a crime, and that could never happen as long as Saddam was in violation of H32 of UN resolution 687, or we lose to the lukewarm "liberal" arts of war. The fastest way to have the war officially declared over would be to vote for the "liberals," who do not consider terrorism to be an enemy.
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I s'pose it will be won right after we win the war on poverty and the war on drugs. fifo and all that
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It never officialy began.
Yes, I know that part, but war was declared against us, it is just we did not declare any back even against terrorism's allies:

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By declaring a formal declaration of war against Afghanistan we set a precedent and will bring out in the open our enemies so that we may crush them. Failing to set the example and the extent that we will go will not do for future peace. When Truman dropped the Atomic Bomb he set an example and caused peace between the major nations that has prevented world war to this date. That is exactly what it did. Now we must deal with uncivilized barbarians who don’t play by the rules. We must remove any haven for them. Obviously other nations will choose sides, some of the Middle Eastern countries will speak one thing and say another to their people, and we must pay attention to those words and take them literally in some of these cases. When Libya, Iran or Iraq say “death to America” or “Holy War” we need to go to war! It is time to quit playing games, Arafat should be shaking in his boots, no terrorist should be allowed to exist in any form: there should be no such thing allowed as a political arm of a terrorist group.” (Posted September 11, 2001 08:39 PM)
The problem is not that we cannot declare war, the problem is terrorism is not an enemy for some Aires:

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The war will be won as soon as we get our troops outta the rest of the world...

Then they will have no Legit reason to attack us...
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The war will be won as soon as we get our troops outta the rest of the world...

Then they will have no Legit reason to attack us...
It's not about legit reasons. It's about reasons that can be sold as legit. There's a huge difference.
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Trust me it's allot easier for a terrorist leader to say to his men


"hey lets go kill the bastards that give tanks to Israel and murder our women and children in there homes!"

then it his for him to say

"hey lets go across the ocean and kill some foreigners that never did anything to us!"
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