Let's take back our party

9/21/2005 | John Rossomando

[Tijeras_Slim]

By the way ~there is NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in this post.

Only because you were too busy being stupid.

[Jim Robinson]

(Trolls regurgitating the dummy talking points are nuked on sight. Them's the rules.)

[Sloth]

The war in Iraq is also unconstitutional as were the wars in Korea and Vietnam because Congress has the constitutional power to declare war.

Yes, Bush is a socialist, but this is a load of crap that I get tired of hearing. Congress DID authorize the Iraq war.

[Sloth]

Perhaps people don't really recall Reagan as President, and his administration has become some conservative dream that it was not. He knew he had to compromise and he did. So does Bush.

When you have the White House & both houses of Congress, "compromise" should mean moving more slowly to the right than we'd like, or at worst, holding steady. Instead, we are steadily going leftward. Why?

[JohnRoss]

I believe, go for the jugular and think strategically. Knowing off, which country would give you the most utility in ending global terror.

Even if this democratic experiment in Iraq works, there isn't any telling if a terror regime worse than Saddam could come to power and establish an Islamic state. It almost happened in Algeria, but the military intervened to ensure that didn't happen.

I also think Iraq is a false analogy with Germany and Japan because both countries were rather homogeneous. Iraq is not.

The Japanese and Germans both had authoritarian cultures that submitted in the face of power. Also, don't forget MacArthur obtained the sanction of the Japanese emperor to act as a sort of Shogun while the government was reorganized.

We don't have an Iraqi Hirohito to tell all of the Muslims to lay down their arms, save for Ayatollah Sistani for the Shia.

In Vietnam, the U.S. tried and failed to Vietnamize the war by unsuccessfully propping up South Vietnam. The ARVN only fought well fighting with American soldiers, but alone, they were no match for the VC and the North Vietmamese regulars.

The only problem with many of the same arguments used by the pro-Iraq interventionists is they were used before: 40-year-ago in the jungles of Vietnam.

Let me just say this, I opposed the initial intervention and have had mixed feelings about the war subesequently, but I support fighting this war until the mission is finished.

The sooner we make the other guy die for his country/religion, the sooner we can make them go home.

To the troops in Iraq, make sure you grease your bullets with a little pork fat so they can't get the virgins.