Posted on 12/06/2005 2:01:26 AM PST by dalight
George Bush is just about the only person in Washington these days who doesn't know that the United States has lost the war in Iraq. "We're never going to back down, we're never going to give in, we'll never accept anything less than total victory," Bush declared in mid-October.
But in the rest of Washington, including the Pentagon, nearly everyone else is thinking about exit strategies. Public support for the war has fallen to an all-time low. Top U.S. generals in Iraq are telling anyone who'll listen that the war has no military solution and are quietly floating ideas to shrink the American occupation. Sen. John Kerry, who spent all of last year waffling on Iraq, now calls for the immediate withdrawal of 20,000 troops and says "our military presence in vast and visible numbers has become part of the problem, not the solution." More than sixty members of Congress have joined the Out of Iraq Caucus, and Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican from Nebraska, charges that the United States is bogged down in Iraq and needs to "start figuring out how we get out of there."
The dilemma now facing the United States is not how to win the war in Iraq but how to end it. The disastrous occupation has left Iraq teetering on the brink of all-out civil war
For more pain.. here is the whole thing
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
I was struck by this piece for a number of reasons, most of which is that this bit of barf is being pumped into the heads of young Americans as "truth." But, if you read this thing, It reads like it could have been written by John Kerry. The basic hypothesis being that if we just left the terrorists alone they would quit bugging us. I guess its time to start fitting American wo men for their burkhas. Gees.
The US lost the war??? say what?
There's a bunch of us in South Carolina that doesn't know that the US has lost, either.
Rolling Stone Magazine = fish wrap.
These idiots will do everything they can NOT to have a vote on a pull-out and they spiel this garbage??
Lets see they passed a Constitution and held elections, and this is LOSING??
I was home for Thanksgiving and my Uncle was grousing about how the war was a big mistake, and my jaw just dropped to the floor. I would never thought they could have gotten to him. If this poison is uncountered, it grows.
This is what Kerry led with lies and distortions in 1971 in support of North Vietnam, and the Democrat party is at it again, trying to lead the United States to defeat. Except, with Vietnam, the threat was pretty nebulous, and I cannot recall the North Vietnamese blowing up buildings in the US or killing 3000 of our citizens.
The World Trade center was no Gulf of Tonkin. And, as we are fighting Al Queda in Iraq, the same group that claims responsibility for the world Trade Center. These folks are saying the best thing is to surrender. Surrender to perhaps 10,000 terrorists running for their lives at this point. Its sickening
Another liberal identifies himself as a fool.
The key to getting the word out to this generation is to get more coverage for returning soldiers. Those who have served in Iraq believe we are winning in Iraq. There's got to be a way to give them more of a public forum on this issue.
Folks, this is Rollingstone Magazine. Their audience is the same aging hipsters that show up at anti-war rallies.
They need to put the crack pipes away or just stick with writing stories about Madonna's latest sex escapades.
Rolling Stone? More like Rolling Stoned.
""They don't want a big conflict in the region.""
What a moron... Of course they don't, the conflict will be from their own people finally seeing what freedom can bring and overthrowing their sorry @sses. These appeasers will never understand the truth and will allow themselves to be used by those that utterly detest them and everything they stand for.
Since MSM controls what propaganda we the public gets fed, and that type of information not fitting the liberal agenda, we can be sure that that will only happen on a very small scale and only then, with some kind of twist.
Sorry, not into that.......LOL...
There have been several surveys here on Free Republic that I couldn't help but say I didn't approve of how the administration was doing things.. but not because they were being too aggressive. Instead, the turn the other cheek thing just wasn't working.. like the terrorists, if you appease a Democrat who is lying.. you just encourage them to do it more.
There's two of us in Washington who also didn't get the word. Me and dubya.
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