Okay...per Sen. Gordon Smith, just now.
He opposes Bush's plan to add troops because "it is too little, too late...but what needs to emerge is a way to make sure that al-queda and other enemies in the war on terror do not spread and are defeated"...
I am paraphrasing but the MAIN JIST is....adding American troops to Iraq now, it NOT a good idea, too little, too LATE...but we cannon leave Iraq until we have gotten rid of all of al-queda and all of the insurgents and anyone else that wants to hurt us!!!
Can any of you explain his logic to me???
He is a US Senator...he HAS to be much smarter than a grandmother in Texas doesn't he???
Someone needs to remind Gordon Smith that we never left Germany or Japan or Korea until the job was done. Apparently the job still isn't done there either.
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No, he doesn't have to be smarter, he just has to be richer. These people who say we need to defeat the enemy, and then don't understand sending in additional troops to do just that, just don't get it. Smith is up for reelection in 08, and I attribute his position to that situation, rather than looking at things in perspective and what is best for the country, Smith is commenting on what is best for him.
Can any of you explain his logic to me???
His "logic" looks to me as: one poll has told him that sending more troops is unpopular; and another poll has told him that fighting terrorists is popular. So he will support what the polls have told him and maybe hold onto his seat. (He figures he can get away with the inconsistency in his position because he knows that as long as he comes out against President Bush the press won't call him on it.)
Gordon Smith has long crossed over to "jackass" mode. It does not make sense and he knows it, but he is so afraid of losing he will say anything. He might have just bought his ticket to a new Career out of the US Senate.