Yes, you're right. More troops, less troops...GWB can't win.
That is the basis for hating Rumsfeld so much. He has had a strategy from day one and has not strayed from it. It is driving the administrations critics nuts that they cannot get him to waffle.
I refuse to watch one show wherein Woodward is the guest. I am already sick to death of his damn book. I hope Condi demands equal time to refute it.
Democrat Illinois Sen. Barack Obama says "We can't afford to be bullied because there's too much at stake," Obama said. "The only strategy the other side has is fear. That's what you're seeing and you're going to see more of it."
Obama isn’t the only one making this claim. California Democrat Nancy Pelosi and New York Democrat Senator Hillary Clinton are saying the same thing.
Is this hype or true? It is true if voters wants to keep their taxes low, or wants us to win in Iraq and then get our troops home as soon as possible. It is true if voters want our country to be proactive in combating terrorism around the world before it comes to our shores. It is true if voters are concerned about the economy or if they are concerned about retirement and social security. It is also true if voters are concerned about our porous borders, illegal aliens voting in our elections or abusing our social services safety-net designed for citizens. Republicans are addressing all these issues from our conservative point of view. Democrats are not offering a solution, only fear mongering these issues for political purposes.
The party of fear has traditionally been Democrats. At every phase after 9-11, Democrats made claims based on fear. Going into Afghanistan? Democrats said we would have thousands of body bags and could not win there, just as the Russians could not win. Democrats said the UN or NATO should be in Afghanistan, not us. What happened turned out different although we did turn the occupation over to NATO. Iraq was supposed to be another disaster. Democrats said there would be thousands of refugees, massive body bags waiting for our military, we could never conquer Baghdad. What happened is it turned out differently. At every phase of every conflict since 9-11 Democrats have predicted doom and gloom, and were wrong.
Republicans have a plan, and we’re following it. We will help defeat the insurgents and terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan. We will have a presence there for a number of years to support Afghanistan and Iraq but the majority of our military will return home.
Today Democrats are wringing their hands over Iran, but like Iraq they have no concept for how to address this problem. The sad truth is Democrats have no plan for dealing with nuclear proliferation or terrorism other than appeasement and treating them as law enforcement matters. This head in the sand approach in reacting to terrorism is exactly what America did throughout the 1980’s, with a Democrat congress controlling funding, and through the 1990’s, with a Democrat President who was incapable of true leadership. The results were not good, nor did they work.
Clearly a new approach was needed. President Bush changed our foreign and military policies from being reactive to being proactive. To the distain of a number of retired, old-school military leaders, President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld have made our military more effective using a smaller and faster fighting force. This has worked in Afghanistan and Iraq, and throughout the Mideast. The American military has created a new standard for being the worlds finest. Terrorists are getting killed in Iraq, not here. Other countries, such as Libya, have already changed their behavior towards nuclear weapons. Countries such as Pakistan, Jordan and Saudi Arabia are actively working to defeat terrorism there. Current USA policies and actions are having a historic and profound impact on the entire Middle East.
The unspoken fact is the War in Iraq has been won. According to historian Larry Schweikart, who happens to be a Freeper, the war was won in 2004 after the battle in Fallujah and the Iraqi voting for a new constitution. What we are doing now is helping the Iraqis rebuild their country without losing it to the radical elements that have exercised so much power in the past. In this effort, the Iraqi and USA forces are combating radical Islamists and terrorists who are resisting Iraq being a democracy with individual freedoms.
The problem in the United States today is that Democrats cannot accept victory in Iraq nor the USA winning the world war over radical Islamic terrorists. The Democrat party is moving further left with their more radical elements as they continue supporting bad policy and bad politics to the detriment of our country.. The War On Terror, and all the issues they thought they had to regain political power, keep backfiring on them and they are on the brink of being irrelevant. If they do not win either the US House or Senate next month, their hopes for a more socialistic America will be delayed for years. This is their worst fear, not terrorism.