Exit Strategy

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Five objectives of the current Iraq invasion:
1) To clean up a mess left by the George Sr administration in 1991 when we failed to impose a political solution on Iraq after the military handed over a spectacular military solution.

2) Improve Israel's strategic position by eliminating a large and hostile military in that region.

3) Create a model Arab democracy to demonstrate to other threatened democracies and regional nations (ie Egypt and Saudia Arabia) how it can be accomplished.

4) Withdrawl US military after 12 years of occupation in Saudia Arabia.

5) Create another friendly source of oil so that instability in Saudia Arabia would not cause oil dependency problems and so that consumption can increase without international disruptions.

These objectives are attributed to Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Rumsfeld.