Posted on 11/24/2006 6:46:08 PM PST by kristinn
One can find the mission misguided without *bashing* the troops who are honorably carrying it out.
If at the end of the day..the Iraqis decide to partiton their country...hey, they can.
I do NOT think we should have anything to do with "imposing" a 3 state solution however.
Well leave already, or stay, just quit the dramatic whining and make up your mind.
Dunno, altura, but both came from the mindset of Hollywood...fabricated from thin air.
I don't know what you are implying.
The Great Society was a notorious failure. Maybe it was noble in its concept, but, like most attempts at socialism, no democrats were able to think far enough ahead to see the unexpected consequences. LBJ was such an odd man, I cannot even pretend to figure out his true motives.
Establishing a democracy in Iraq would be a good thing, and, unlike the great society, there was no particular political benefit to Bush in advancing this cause.
On the contrary, he knew it would be difficult and difficult to explain to people and probably cause his popularity to suffer.
So, your point is???????
Great tagline!
I'm glad for brave souls like you, Ohio, TX, Miss Marple and others.
But I can't do it without serious injury to my fragile mental health (ha).
When the 20/20 hindsight remarks are negative and don't lend themselves to what to do from here forward...all it does is let the enemy know that the American people are more intent on complaining...
The enemy then figures all it has to do is wait us out...that eventually the complainers will get power...and BINGO...they did.
Now, they are trying to make it as bloody as possible...to make sure the Dems do exactly what they are doing...pushing for a quick pull out....
Complaining about mistakes from 3 years ago is such a useless thing to do...
Really? Because I recall something about a "slam dunk" war, after which the Great Liberation Army would be greeted by cheering mobs of flower-tossing Iraqis.
I'm not aware that I have constantly attacked you tx. Frankly, I don't recall ever posting to you. I could be wrong. Maybe you feel like collateral damage?
Somehow, and maybe it's just me, I can't see the conservative nature in using the GOTV effort to:
1st, campaign for a Conservative, and 2nd, in the next breath campaign for a RINO, and proclaim that both deserve your support and Vote. There is something wrong with that picture. Vote R for R's sake? That didn't work out so well, and the GOTV effort must have been absolutely laughable in front of anyone with two brain cells to rub together. I'm coming up on 30 years of doing this, and I have seen and heard quite a bit, but I think I would pay good money to see the ramblings of which I commented above. The look on Joe Sixpack's face would have to be priceless. This is the claim to fame for ohioWfan. Blackbird.
The enemy then figures all it has to do is wait us out...that eventually the complainers will get power...and BINGO...they did.
Now, they are trying to make it as bloody as possible...to make sure the Dems do exactly what they are doing...pushing for a quick pull out....
Complaining about mistakes from 3 years ago is such a useless thing to do...
How true...and they are doing exactly that...we must be so predictable to them....the American people have no stamina.
Wow..you really have those DU talking points down, don't you?
If this were anything resembling a failure, you would not see the commitment you see here.
Our biggest disappointment is how duped people back home seem to have become. (Present company excluded, of course.)
You might like to post where you read that.
You certainly never heard it from the lips of our President.
As I said before, it was and could have been a slam dunk war. It's been over for years.
What we're doing now is attempting a peace-keeping operation in order to allow a democracy to form in Iraq, and we're trying to do that without undue harm to the population.
Population, by the way, who more or less look alike, wear no uniforms, and there is no way to tell who is off in a cave making IED's and who's just wanting peace and minding his own business.
Establishing a democracy in Iraq would be a good thing
I disagree. Democracy is worth nothing without liberty and justice. We can see that after the resounding "democratic" victory of Hamas and dare I say the democratic victory of Maliki/Sadr's fundamentalist Shi'ite coalition in Iraq. Give me liberty and justice any day over rule by the tyranny of numbers.
Thank you Allegra.
If they would have watched John Abizaid's testimony on the Hill a few weeks ago...they would have heard him say that the despair is in Washington...not in Iraq.
Sorry...meant to include you on #1154. (I should be hitting the hay now and I'm being a night-owl again....)
So go back and read...I think I suggested - but didn't flat out say - that it might be better to not worry about the Iraqi government at this point. Establish security first, then try again for democracy, if we want.
I don't know that my suggestions would carry any weight with those who'd need to implement them in any case.
What sort of comments, other than "Stay the course" do you deem acceptable?
Administration spin <> DU talking points.
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