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Tagline for you: Ron Paul -- finally a TRUE conservative Sheehan can embrace
Sheehan and her commie backers would certainly embrace RP's cut and run stance in Iraq and his military isolationism in general, but his position on guns, taxes, border security, and the welfare state would positively horrify them.
They are at 180's with each other in the political spectrum and you know it. While one person spammed the thread with what Ron Paul said about the war one part was very true. The congress is not behind this war. They never were behind this war. Instead of a Congressional Declaration of War specifying the interest of the United States congress wrote out pages of enforcing U.N. Resolution TRIPE! The GOP nor the DEMs in congress didn't even have the guts to simply write out a two paragraph declaration specifing solely the interest of the United States and commit themselves to it. I understand where he was coming from.
Saddam is dead. He was a thug and a tyrant. So are thousands more over there in leadership positions. Our best solution was to keep them busy fighting amongst each other. Our second best solution was a selective covert strike against leaders and terrorist cells causing us grief. When you do that you don't parade around the press and send out state department clowns announcing it to the world.
Here's the example. A Libyan dictator causing problems was the response Oh my gosh call up all our troops for the next 5 years? Or how about simply and quietly dropping a missile into his tent and not a peep heard for years. Cheaper, more effective, and it gets the job done in short order.
Bush mishandled Iraq and much of the backlash he brought on himself. One was the USS LINCOLN fiasco with Mission Accomplished. The nation took it to mean as time to wind down and get our troops home. Next someone put it in W's mind we should rebuild Iraq. That is where the man lost the support of many conservatives especially ones who had reservations about going to Iraq to start with.
If you want to win a war turn it over to the Generals and let them do their vocation. Untie their hands and let them do it and be done with it. Honor them, give them a parade and a thank you, and welcome them home. Don't have them building schools etc for the families who's uncle Ommar tonight may kill a dozen of their platoon. War is a punishment and the enemy should never be rewarded with a new nation.
If you want to get bogged down and hug the tar baby from which you will never be able to let go just involve the State Department in it. You will never satisfy their liberal agenda of being the worlds policeman and nation building contractor.
Bush called for 25,000 more troops. Now when did he go to congress and ask for the End Troop Strength to be raised so Grandpa in the Guards isn't yet again sent to Iraq for another year plus tour of duty?