Iraq War Architects Shrug Off Truth

Townhall.com ^ | May 2, 2008 | Diana West

[Defiant]

It wasn't the overweening Bush administration plan for Jeffersonizing the Fertile Crescent, or our leaders' misreading of the "democratic ally" potential therein. It was the 14-month-reign of the CPA that caused all our woes. The CPA, the argument goes, in effect created the Sunni insurgency, which later gave rise to the Sunni-Shiite wars, and which ultimately required the added infusion of American troops known as the surge.

They are right. Go in, kick ass, control the place, and things fall in place later. She could say the same things about postwar Japan, yet after several years of American military governance, the place was as quiet as a titmouse. Would that Diana were.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Islamic terrorist are like thugs. They want their way or the highway. They will bully their way to power and once they get their create Sharia laws to help hold power.

What we are doing in Iraq seems to be stabilizing the rest of the Middle East. For example look at United Arab Emirates they are becoming more westernized everyday. My theory is that the extremist are to busy in Iraq and can not bully their way to power in other Middle East countries.

[Crim]

“Islamic terrorist are like thugs. They want their way or the highway. They will bully their way to power and once they get their create Sharia laws to help hold power.”

There is no doubt....

“What we are doing in Iraq seems to be stabilizing the rest of the Middle East. For example look at United Arab Emirates they are becoming more westernized everyday. My theory is that the extremist are to busy in Iraq and can not bully their way to power in other Middle East countries.”

Afganistan and Iraq drew the faithful by the score..... same as they die...

I dont really like all that much McCain...but he nailed it....

“This isnt a choice between war and peace....this is a choice between war and something much worse.

[Hank Kerchief]

Is liberty itself simply a western value?

Something the dirty islamic barbarians just cant grasp?

Bingo!!

Hank