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So What's Our Role in Iraq's Civil War?
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Contributor | RP |
Last Edited | RP Aug 09, 2006 03:50pm |
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Category | Editorial |
Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
News Date | Wednesday, August 9, 2006 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | Of all the signs that the American people are fed up with the war in Iraq, the one that the administration should fear most was put forth last week by a longtime supporter of both the president and the war, Virginia Republican John Warner.
While chairing a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Warner suggested that the president might need a new congressional resolution authorizing our presence in Iraq, since the conflict there has become (or, best case, may yet become) a civil war.
Now, that would be one challenging resolution to write. Once you've come up with "Whereas the conflict in Iraq is now a civil war between Shiites and Sunnis," what is it, exactly, that we are therefore supposed to resolve? In an Iraqi civil war -- which is precisely what we now confront -- what is the mission of U.S. forces?
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