Posted on 08/08/2005 1:25:00 PM PDT by Crackingham
A mother of a dead soldier sat camped in Crawford, Texas. She wants President Bush to define the “noble cause” that he said her son died for.
The initial reasons we were given for invading Iraq was because it hadn’t complied with UN weapons inspections and we needed to find and destroy Iraq’s WMDs – those pesky, still-unfound chemical and biological weapons that would do us harm. (Interesting though that we didn’t much care about them when they were being used against the Iranian soldiers during the Iran-Iraq war or against the Kurds in northern Iraq.)
As more and more weapon caches were found and more and more of the country searched with no WMDs in sight, the reason for the invasion seemed to shift a bit – we needed to rid Iraq of Saddam Hussein so that Iraqis wouldn’t be so oppressed… mission creep number one.
Then, once Saddam was toppled, the war became a part of “spreading democracy” across the globe… mission creep number two.
Now, it is a war against insurgents... mission creep number three. And Iraq has become the “central front” in the war on terror… mission creep number four.
Huh?
How can the reason or reasons for conducting a preemptive strike against another country change after the fact?
Even the first President Bush understood this, when he and Brent Skowcroft wrote in a 1998 Time magazine article, “Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep," and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs.”
Those incalculable costs are now happening daily. The WMD reason we went to war appears to have been based on incorrect information. A brutal dictator sits awaiting trial, in a country that is barely holding itself together, but we are now going in so many directions – rebuilding, fighting unknown and unseen enemies, conducting gas-bootlegging, providing safeguarding and security in some areas – that the war has become a quagmire.
Whether one supported the invasion is now immaterial. It is time to remember why we started it – for that will also tell us that it should be over. Now.
Time for the troops to come home. Their initial mission – before all the mission creep – is over.
Thanks,but that will go right over his head and he'll say it was her son.
Must be the only argument he has.
I concur
:)
I feel sorry for the people who were delusional enough to vote for Kerry.
Think about it, their lives are an incessant circle of anguish and loathing.
They are absoluley convinced that everyone thinks the way they do, are absolutely convinced that Micheal Moore's slobumentary 'Farthingheight 9/11' is factual, and are completely snowed into thinking that the reason they lost in the last election was due to not being liberal enough.
And then they use women who lost children as propaganda tools to further a bloody cause against our troops.
Yes.
Quite.
This is not a serfdom...I get it and you never will.
Don't worry. He's toothless and slow witted.
you sweet thang there you go again defending me. Let it go...for gods sake let it go. forget me. please
Oh.
I see.
Sorry, it is you who don't get it.
You do not understand the enemy we are up against.
And you never will.
Can't, it was so.. so.. tempestuous!
Actually, people like this troll ARE the enemy.
Oh now you want to be adult. Too late.
I know.
But he thinks he is a patriot.
Much like the Walkers did when they committed treason.
LOL!
I've BEEN saying that style of comment, YOU merely chose to ignore it!
Obviously you don't know how to fight a war.
Especially one against an enemy who will also use POLITICS and OPINION to fight you.
That's what terrorists are.
They would LOVE to capture one of the Presidents daughters if they served.
That would be a political victory for the enemy.
And if they killed them on video, for the terrorists that would also be a victory.
You see, terrorists don't attack military targets, they attack targets that will make a point or a statement.
And the Presidents children would make a big point indeed.
You know what that means?
Stoner.
War what is it made for? I want to kill/conquer/ruleover the people responsible for 911...what's so difficult about that? Iraq? Get serious
And which Proverb would that be?
I figured he was one of the 'not in our name' types who care about 'freedom and happiness' for the bad guys.
The last time a 'nion' type trolled here, they were using the "I don't see Dubya's kids in uniform" line as well.
(Pssst.. post 84 in this thrread..)
you are no friend of freedom...and you are duly noted.
Salman Pak.
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