Posted on 06/12/2008 9:54:42 PM PDT by Enchante
The disconnect between what Democrats are saying about Iraq and what is actually happening there has reached grotesque proportions. Democrats won an exhilarating electoral victory in 2006 pledging withdrawal at a time when conditions in Iraq were dire and we were indeed losing the war. Two years later, when everything is changed, they continue to reflexively repeat their "narrative of defeat and retreat" (as Joe Lieberman so memorably called it) as if nothing has changed.
It is a position so utterly untenable that John McCain must seize the opportunity and, contrary to conventional wisdom, make the Iraq War the central winning plank of his campaign. Yes, Americans are war-weary. Yes, most think we should not have engaged in the first place. Yes, Obama will keep pulling out his 2002 speech opposing the war.
But McCain's case is simple. Is not Obama's central mantra that this election is about the future not the past? It is about 2009, not 2002. Obama promises that upon his inauguration, he will order the Joint Chiefs to bring him a plan for withdrawal from Iraq within 16 months. McCain says that upon his inauguration, he'll ask the Joint Chiefs for a plan for continued and ultimate success.
The choice could not be more clearly drawn. The Democrats' one objective in Iraq is withdrawal. McCain's one objective is victory.
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Obama wants to force us to lose in Iraq, just when much progress is being made and we can succeed beyond what seemed possible to most people not too long ago.
The choice could not be more clearly drawn. The Democrats’ one objective in Iraq is withdrawal. McCain’s one objective is victory. (from original post)
yes. And even today, reports are again about major security progress in Iraq. People should talk more to returning soldiers rather than listening to all the MSM. JSM needs to get the cojones to ask BHO what he’d do (after he yanks all the troops abruptly back home) when Iran and the terrorists take over Iraq. Of course, he’d send our troops back (only this time with MANY more casualties and countless consequences).
Here’s the song link.
Youtube must not imbed well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdM8PDu6VMg&eurl=http://www.americablog.com/
Nobody (reporter) asks him if we are going to fight our way back into Baghdad if we leave, the place collapses, and a nutcase takes the helm.
That would be powerful, and spot on.
Deserves its own thread...I'll put it together.
Well, battle lines are drawn in this election. The American people face a sharp, clear choice, between liberal socialist policies, and more moderate conservative (though not conservative enough in some areas) policies. They face a choice between retreat and surrender vs. onward to final victory. They face a choice between appeasement and staying on offense to do our best to ensure that Sept 11th never happens again.
If McCain cannot take to the American people the case for the folly of that policy, he will not be president. Nor should he be.And this is precisely why McCain won't be President. He definitely won't be taking the case to the American people, not in the way Krauthammer is urging him to. It's not McCain's style.
You know how maddening the years of Bush have been, as Bush lets the left slide on issue after issue without ever confronting them head on? Well, take that tendency to wimp-out, multiply it by a thousand, and you've got McCain.
McCain won't be taking any cases to the American people.
McCain's too busy reaching across the aisle.
So you might as well keep your advice to yourself, Mr. Krauthammer, because McCain's not listening.
What you should do in the meantime, since McCain's not going to read or heed anything you write, is take some time off and contemplate how you went so far leftist yourself, with your recent piece calling for increased federal taxes on gasoline as a way to "solve" the oil shortage problem.
I think you suffer from the same mental disease McCain does, your case just isn't so advanced.
I prescribe: back to the basics. Read up on basic principles of conservatism, especially economic conservatism. Then come back and pontificate.
Has become? That place was from the beginning occupied by Moonbats and kool-aid drinkers
November 7, 2008, after Iran refused to heed GWB, he gives them 48 hours to abandon all nuclear facilities.
Dems in congress scream bloody murder, joined by msm.
November 9, 2008, the muhallahs in iran find out {like sadman ho-said} that GWB doesn't play.
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