’06 politicking will be all about Iraq [Cut and Run ALERT]

Daily News - Lebanon, PA ^ | 12/29/05 | Paul Heise

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[mainepatsfan]

What? Nothing about the economy?

[Gordongekko909]

He needed to word that story with as much hyperbole as possible. Support for both the President and the war is on the rise, and this guy is trying to slap it back down again.

Republicans always win on national security because the Left is invested in defeat. As much as the Left is angry about it, the American people refuse to forget 9/11.

[cvq3842]

Thanks for link.

I am perfectly happy with the Democrats receiving NO credit for US policy on the War on Terror/Iraq, etc. Sounds like they are too. I hope American remembers at the ballot box.

[MNJohnnie]

Guess they STILL haven't look at the polls. 60% of Americans say they would be LESS likely to vote for candidates that run on either a cut and run from Iraq or an Impeach Bush platform. But hey, lets NOT tell them! It is so much funnier to watch their stunned disbelief on election night. Get a kick watching the "Journalists" covering the Republican Victory party on the verge of tears as they have to report on it.

[Darkwolf377]

Bush got us into this mess, and he has offered no way to get us out.

We win, then draw down gradually as the Iraqis take over.

You haven't heard this before?

[A.Hun]

Bush got us into this mess, and he has offered no way to get us out.

Victory is not a strategy....Dumb$ss. /s

[Darkwolf377]

You've put your finger on it. "Pay no attention to that economy which we said was the worst in decades!"

[Gordongekko909]

Are you pinged up to the DUFU list? The DUmmies are all about impeachment right now, with no thought of what effect running on the issue will have on a Congressional candidate. Give 'em all the rope they can carry.

[MNJohnnie]

Yeah! When your political foes is busy planting landmines right under his own feet, DO NOT try and stop him.

[MNJohnnie]

Yeah! When your political foes is busy planting landmines right under his own feet, DO NOT try and stop him.

[MNJohnnie]

Bush got us into this mess, and he has offered no way to get us out.

Are these losers telling us a MONTH after President Bush made public the N.S.C's "National Plan for Victory in Iraq" they STILL have not read it? Any they think voters are going to trust THEM with power?

[mainepatsfan]

They tried running on it in 2002. Didn't work out too well for them.

[MNJohnnie]

About the author. Proof positive there is absolutely NO linkage between education and IQ. This person is a professor and is THIS woefully ignorant of reality????

A resident of Mt. Gretna, Heise holds a Ph.D. in economics and is professor emeritus of economics at Lebanon Valley College. His column appears every other Thursday. He maintains a web log at weboped.com, and he can also be reached at:

heise@lvc.edu

[Gordongekko909]

Dims aren't too sharp on history. Let's hope that character trait sticks with them and they continue to bang their heads against the wall.

Damn, even retarded people are capable of learning from failure.

[Darkwolf377]

They're trying the old Jedi mind trick. "The only reason we went to war was WMD, forget all the other reasons Bush said over and over... Worst economy ever... Katrina...wiretapping...corruption..."

The Democrats: Phantom Menaces in an Empire Strikes Back world!

[pissant]

The Dems will be running from this debate on Iraq faster than Michael Jackson chasing a 7 year old boy....

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Like eyewitnesses to an accident who all see the same thing differently, a debate would be good if accurately reported. Unfortunately, many of the eyewitnesses are biased toward one side.

Finally, there is someone who has actively engaged the terrorists in their lair and is aggressively taking the battle to them. Communism and Islamism are the same evil in different clothes. However, they use similar stealth tactics with an overall stratey of world domination.

We fought Communism through their surrogates in Korea and Vietnam. We are fighting the Islamist through one of their surrogates in Iraq, among other lessor known places. As in Korea and Nam we have them concentrated in a place far from our shores. They are sending warriors from around the world to engage us there. Defeating them will take time.

We are fighting them both here at home through their surrogates, although the Democrats have pretty well come out into the open. We have never lost to them militarily, and never will, but the most serious battle is here at home.

I think by election time the Democrats/Communists/Islamists will have been proven wrong often enough that the war will not be the centerpiece. Instead, it will a lytanny of many things but primarily will center on an attack of the Republicans and President Bush's integrity.

Integrity is our strong point and sleaze is theirs. Predictably, they will try to reverse that.

[mainepatsfan]

They keep doing the same thing but expect a different result each time.

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