Maybe his plate wouldn't have been so full if he had concentrated on the priority mission to get OSAMA in Afghanistan instead of pursuing a personal vendetta to get vengeance for his daddy on Hussein in Iraq. If, after he got OSAMA, and he felt that Iraq was still a threat, he could have pursued it then, but as it stands, he created an unnecessary second front when the priority mission was still unresolved. Now, having said that, our men and women who have served in Iraq are winners, and have acquitted themselves with honor and distinction, but I question our necessity to be there.
If Pres. Bush knew some overriding need to take down Iraq and install a friendlier regime there for national security reasons, he should have enumerated those reasons and most of us would have stood firmly behind him. As it stands, we are unsure how long the current leadership will last in Iraq after our troops are withdrawn, and if it is removed when we do leave, the last 7 years will have been for nothing. Also, where is OSAMA?
I am sick of neo-con RINO's who are too weak kneed to stand up for true conservatism calling those who can, and do, list the faults of the Bush/McCain elitist faction "libs". Neither Bush nor McCain is a conservative. The ONLY reason Bush ever got elected is because he was slightly less puke inducing than his opponents. McCain was just more of the moderate same, and that my FReeper FRiend is the reason Johnny Mc. lost his arse.
“Where is Osama?”
We couldn’t find Eric Rudolph in the woods in NC for years and you’re asking where Osama is? Do you have adequate intel to say he is positively in Afghanistan? I thought not.
As for your premise that we shouldn’t be in Iraq look at a map of the Middle East and maybe you’ll be able to figure out why we are there and in Afghanistan. Ever played Risk? Ever heard of Iran? Luckily my knowledge of geography prevented me from having to ask Bush to enumerate his reasons for being there and thus he has had my undivided support.
I hate the RINOS and have railed against them for years but facts are facts.
Bush>Gore
Bush>Kerry
McCain>Obama
Now we face Russia training with Venezuela close to our home, Iran going nuclear, it goes on and on. I would much rather have faced that reality with McCain rather than Obama and that, my FReeper FRiend, does not make me a neocon or a RINO.