Are we living on the same Planet?
Is your war already over in your Planet?
On my Planet, our war is still going on.
On the Planet Earth, where I am living, the Home Front in a country called the United States of America has been allowed to become so demoralized that, as of today, a Presidential candidate named Barack Hussein Obama is leading in the polls for a Presidential election to be held in two weeks. That candidate, Barack Hussein Obama, has promised to bug out of Iraq before the victory is finalized because the majority of American voters are convinced that the war in Iraq is a Lost Cause.
A war must be won BOTH on the battlefield and on the Home Front.
A war can be lost BOTH on the battlefield and on the Home Front.
Lincoln initially lost on the battlefield, in devastatinbg defeats, again and again, at First Bull Run, at Seven Days, at Second Bull Run, at Chancellorsville, at Fredericksburg and, yet, Lincoln kept up the morale of the American Home Front until the battlefield victories came his way.
Bush was handed spectacular military victories. By any measure of military History, this war is well on its way towards Victory and the American Home Front should know it.
Yet George W. Bush's abysmal leadership has allowed the American Home Front to become so demoralized that, in two weeks, the voters of the United States of America, as odds stand today, are poised to elect a President that has promised to bug out of Iraq and the perceived Lost Cause.
In the end, wars are won or lost by the simple fact of who, in the end, achieved his strategic objective.
Wars are not fought for "bragging rights" about which side kicked more butt on a battlefield before they then fled with their tails between their legs.
By such a standard, the Germans "won" the Battle of Jutland because the Germans inflicted more casualties on the Royal Navy.
The realities of war, however, are that the Battle of Jutland was a British victory because the German High Seas Fleet fled back into port, never to seriously challenge the Royal Navy again and Britannia ruled the surface of the waves for the rest of World War One.
Criticize Bush for his failures, but recognize where he’s been successful.
Bush was succesful in the intial victories.
He was a failure in opposing the Surge that McCain championed until the Republicans had already lost Congress.
He was an abysmal failure in allowing the morale of the American Home Front to become so eroded that the American Home Front may very well vote, on Election Day in two weeks, to voluntarlly surrender in Iraq.
The only thing that can make George W. Bush "successful", in the end, is a McCain victory next Election Day.
If McCain becomes Commander-in-Chief, there will be no bug out of America from Iraq with America's tail between its legs.
If, due to George W. Bush's abysmal leadership vis a vis the American Home Front, the demoralized American voters elect Barack Hussein Obama, the enemy will, a year from now, end up with control of Iraq and History will put the blame squarely on George W. Bush for winning the battlefield part of the war and disasterously losing the Home Front War.
Many lesser presidents would have quit.
Damn right and Bush's abysmal handling of the Home Front has so demoralized the American voter in regards to the war that they are now favoring exactly such a "lesser President" because Obama has PROMISED to bug out of the war.
George W. Bush did not "quit" on the Home Front War. George W. Bush never showed up at the Home Front War.
The straight facts are we won in Iraq because Bush stayed the course. Here’s hoping some day you’ll see that.
The "straight fact" is that a war is not "won" until is has ended and the war in Iraq is still in progress.
If Obama is elected, thanks to the demoralized Home Front, and bugs out of Iraq, the enemy will end up in control of Iraq and the war, in the end, will have been lost.
