President Bush should do a Lincoln and fire this hopeless military leadership from Rumsfeld on down and replace them with leaders who are able to come up with a plan to win this war soon and not cop out about how difficult it is and how long it will take. Patton wouldn't take those excuses.
I say again Over or Out. Get it Over or get us Out. We still have China to worry about.
President Bush should do a Lincoln and fire this hopeless military leadership from Rumsfeld on down and replace them with leaders who are able to come up with a plan to win this war soon and not cop out about how difficult it is and how long it will take. Patton wouldn't take those excuses.
I say again Over or Out. Get it Over or get us Out. We still have China to worry about
The resident Bush hater comes out. Using your and Jones's logic there should have never been a D-Day.
Oh BTW what about the warnings the clinton administartion and the UN that saddam had WMD.
BTW, snook a simple question is the world better or worse off now that saddam is out of power.
As time goes on, the more i'm inclined to agree with you.
We spent the first 3 to 4 years of the Civil War pussyfooting around... then General Sherman started burning rebel towns to the ground, and the war quickly came to an end.
Dresden, Hirsoshima...
With all due respect, we won this war incredibly quickly.
How many years did we stay in Germany and Japan after we helped the Allies win that war?
How many years have we been in Bosnia?
The war is over but if we leave before the Iraqi people can govern and defend themselves than our losses have truly been in vain.
"replace them with leaders who are able to come up with a plan to win this war soon and not cop out about how difficult it is and how long it will take. Patton wouldn't take those excuses."
And how, may I ask, do you know there is not a plan?
Second, what is wrong with you idiots who think we should put a "deadline" on the war and, worst of all, announce to you and the enemy the date we are pulling out?! I can't even comprehend such stupidity!!!
""I say again Over or Out. Get it Over or get us Out. We still have China to worry about.""
What make you think turing tail in Iraq will improve our ability to deal with China,
If anything withdrawl and defeat in Iraq will encourage China to invade Taiwan
President Bush should do a Lincoln and fire this hopeless military leadership from Rumsfeld on down and replace them with leaders who are able to come up with a plan to win this war soon and not cop out about how difficult it is and how long it will take. Patton wouldn't take those excuses.
I say again Over or Out. Get it Over or get us Out. We still have China to worry about.
I see your point, and agree with you somewhat. One of the major problems is that there's a huge enemy contingent here at home, something that really wasn't the case during WWII.
Back then, the press actually wanted the US to win. And they were willing to help the US military. That's no longer the case. Reading articles about the war, you get the feeling that if the press isn't activly supporting the enemies of the US, they at least are hoping that the US loses. And don't even get me started about the lawyers who are claiming that the people confined at GITMO deserve access to the US court system. During WWII, they would have been summarily shot. And people doing what the press or those lawyers were doing would have been arrested and charged with treason.
No, I don't think that President Bush could do what you say he should, given the political climate today. The simple fact is that congress doesn't have the will to fight a war the way it needs to be fought, and they would oppose the President all the way. We haven't fought a war the "right way" (keep fighting until the enemy is unable to fight any more, and unconditionally surrenders), which is why we haven't really seen a lasting peace since the end of WWII (the cold war doesn't count).
I believe that it was General Lamay that said had the US lost WWII, he would have been charged with war crimes. THAT'S THE WAY WAR SHOULD BE FOUGHT!!! HARD, DIRTY, AND UNTIL THE ENEMY IS DEFEATED AND UNABLE TO FIGHT!
Mark
I agree. We are scared to use our weapons, our technology, our overwhelming superiority. Instead we are letting our men police the civilians. I hate collateral damage, but we are risking our men, our nation to save Iraqi civilians from themselves. It is insanity. Do it now, do it completely, or get the hell out.
WW2 was a war that we fought to win. It seems that despite having the most powerful military that has ever existed, we are in the middle of a PC war. We don't want to offend anyone by going after an enemy that uses mosques as protection even though the enemy has no problem blowing up mosques. Infractions by a few soldiers become blown up as proof that we are a nation of war criminals with our enemies within, the enemy's useful idiots, our own treasonous media, and America haters in general all merrily chiming in to weaken our will to win. Our enemies have an agenda and are cunning and patient. They are also barbaric. We on the the other hand as a nation seem to have the attention span of whatever show such as American Idol is on TV. Our dangerous enemies are somehow morphed into oppressed victims by many apathetic, clueless Americans. I could rant on forever about how a PC war is unwinnable but I believe the reasons are obvious.
Oh for the good old days of WWII when the enemy was in uniform, and on the battlefield. That part of the Iraq War was over rather quickly.
BTW, thanks for your service!