Maybe the Republican Party needs to seriously re-think the Iraq War and its aftermath, rather than just falling back on a knee-jerk, emotional patriotism. Did the expense of blood and treasure move us closer to any major foreign policy goals? There are some valid arguments that it did not.
My thought on the war is, “What’s done is done”. Sure we didn’t expect to see as much insurgent activity as we’ve seen.
Don’t leave without getting the job done.
I will not blame President Bush for the invasion. You go to war with the intelligence that you have.
Then, when things f’up, you have to take care of it. I think we have done that with the surge.
I do feel that a formal Declaration of War would have been wise. Why let Congress off the hook and let the CIC take all the blame for military action?
Now that the military action has turned into a peacekeeping operation, we need to get ourselves out of there and let the Iraqis start to fend for themselves.
I don’t want YET another country to be a welfare recipient of the American military like Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Germany, etc...
My children are going to have to pay for this War, the roads in CA, and feeding/housing/educating illegals for the rest of their lives.