Comments on: President Bush, please declare victory in Iraq before leaving office http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2009/01/12/president-bush-please-declare-victory-in-iraq-before-leaving-office/ Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:43:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: icbm http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2009/01/12/president-bush-please-declare-victory-in-iraq-before-leaving-office/#comment-46 icbm Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:31:24 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/finrod/?p=13#comment-46 than what we wish for. Declaring victory might make it more likely that Obama would order a precipitous retreat. After all, no more need to remain if victory is achieved, right? No, better to leave Obama a more ambiguous situation that makes him think that, although victory is probably if we follow Gen. Petraeus's advice, the war could be lost if we retreat. He's a doctrinaire leftist, but he may yet come to the small realization that it wouldn't be good for his presidency to lose a war. than what we wish for.

Declaring victory might make it more likely that Obama would order a precipitous retreat. After all, no more need to remain if victory is achieved, right?

No, better to leave Obama a more ambiguous situation that makes him think that, although victory is probably if we follow Gen. Petraeus’s advice, the war could be lost if we retreat.

He’s a doctrinaire leftist, but he may yet come to the small realization that it wouldn’t be good for his presidency to lose a war.

]]> By: icbm http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2009/01/12/president-bush-please-declare-victory-in-iraq-before-leaving-office/#comment-47 icbm Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:31:24 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/finrod/?p=13#comment-47 than what we wish for. Declaring victory might make it more likely that Obama would order a precipitous retreat. After all, no more need to remain if victory is achieved, right? No, better to leave Obama a more ambiguous situation that makes him think that, although victory is probably if we follow Gen. Petraeus's advice, the war could be lost if we retreat. He's a doctrinaire leftist, but he may yet come to the small realization that it wouldn't be good for his presidency to lose a war. than what we wish for.

Declaring victory might make it more likely that Obama would order a precipitous retreat. After all, no more need to remain if victory is achieved, right?

No, better to leave Obama a more ambiguous situation that makes him think that, although victory is probably if we follow Gen. Petraeus’s advice, the war could be lost if we retreat.

He’s a doctrinaire leftist, but he may yet come to the small realization that it wouldn’t be good for his presidency to lose a war.

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