Ten Months or Ten Years

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Author(s)	Thomas Friedman
Source	The New York Times
Date	November 29, 2006
URL	http://select.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/opinion/29friedman.html
Quote	"Either we just get out of Iraq in a phased withdrawal over 10 months, and try to stabilize it some other way, or we accept the fact that the only way it will not be a failed state is if we start over and rebuild it from the ground up, which would take 10 years. This would require reinvading Iraq, with at least 150,000 more troops, crushing the Sunni and Shiite militias, controlling borders, and building Iraq’s institutions and political culture from scratch."

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This item takes a mixed stance on the position United States should increase troop levels on the topic Post-invasion Iraq.

This item takes a mixed stance on the position Coalition troops should pull out on the topic Post-invasion Iraq.