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    how he plans to avoid the same sort of humanitarian crises at the end of the first Gulf War. It's reasonable to assume that the withdrawal of US troops could lead to large refugee populations left to their own devices. How does he intend to deal with the potential for such a situation?

    Intelligent Designer Laments Lapse in Intelligence

    by mrblifil on Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 06:28:00 PM PDT

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      There already are 2 million refugees.  There is a humanitarian crisis!

      1. “Nobody is proposing we leave precipitously. There are still going to be U.S. forces in the region that could intercede, with an international force, on an emergency basis,” Obama said between stops on the first of two days scheduled on the New Hampshire campaign trail.

      In the rest of the article Obama iterates that diplomacy is the end-all of Iraq strategy, and the genocide cannot be the determinant.

      “Well, look, if that’s the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now — where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife — which we haven’t done,” Obama said in an interview with The Associated Press.

      Plus, he knows what crapped out means, which will help him explain his condition on the morning of November 5 - PBCliberal

      by Nulwee on Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 06:31:50 PM PDT

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