I for one think it's gone on way too long. And I'm a conservative and a Vet.
Are you saying we should just leave? At what point did it become "too long"?
Wow. I'm glad you weren't speaking out during WWII.
"put an end to the Iraq war Who besides liberals is asking for this?" "I for one think it's gone on way too long. And I'm a conservative and a Vet."
Well, WWII went on too long, but that doesnt mean we should have quit after Midway or Anzio ...
The Iraq war is an insurgency that will wind down as we grind down the terrorist cells. The good news is that for Al Qaeda, their own internal documents reveal that they consider themselves losing. They are weaker month by month and the Iraqi forces are stronger. Soon enough Iraq will be able to defend itself and our troops will be able to get out of harm's way.
WW11 went on way too long, also.
Sure glad we didn't cut and run tho' - German's a hard language to learn
So am I.
If you Can find my post when they backed down in Fallujah You will find out I said then we should have pulled our troops out.
That's when they took it away from the military and turned it over to the State Department [ read politicians] and allowed the money makers [Haliburton] to rush in before the shooting had even stopped.
I said that we would end up dragging this mess out with no end in sight. I said we where going to end up with the same thing happening to us in Iraq as was happening to Israel with these terrorists picking our soldiers off till the people at home got sick of it.
The reason I said that was because we where fighting the same people they where with the same people dictating to our military that dictates our foreign policy to Israel.
The political leaders have learned nothing.
There is no reason that the supposedly most powerful nation on earth should still be trading shots three years later with a third rate country whose army was already broken down.
This what you get when politicians dictate military action. They fight PC wars by the polls.
All we are going to get out of this mess is dead solders, a discouraged military and citizens, richer businessmen, an Islamic Iraq as it was before we got there or worse and enemies around the world with a lot less fear or respect for our nation.
The politicians will once again blame the people for their failure.
It is not our soldiers fault nor is the people's .
It is once again leaders starting a fight they don't have the know how or the stomach for, nor the common sense to leave to those who do.