Bush acknowledges total disaster that Iraq has become, sends more troops

<div class="quote_poster">Omarion Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">The Roman Empire occupied areas outside their natural domain (like Africa, Israel, etc, fairly successful for centuries), the Persian empire occupied a large area (including outside its natural boundaries) for a couple of centuries (I think), more recently, how about the British occupation of South Africa, Hong Kong, India (seemed fairly successful), the Russian occupation of half of Europe and a lot of Asia, Muslims occupied Persia (Iran), African countries, Pakistan, Israel, etc. China seems to occupy Tibet fairly easily.</div>

Good point. But you can throw out the Roman Empire because that was sheer numbers. Russia did occupy alot of Europe but look at Russia now....do you want to trade todays USA for todays Russia. You can't spend 450 billion dollars in a disaster then say....lets send more troops. I think it would take alot more sack to get out of there. The only problem is that the US has stirred up so much crap, that they are painted into a corner. Can't look weak by leaving, but in the meantime, looking weak by not winning this war.