Dude, the "war" is over. The current situation in Iraq is not a war, its an effort to give the current Iraqi government the ability to resist and destroy attacks by fanatic killers.
Dude, you tell the guys fighting in Iraq, getting shot at, sleeping on the desert floor, doing patrol in 110º heat, who shower once every two weeks and are eating K-rations that this ain't no war. Let me know when you do so I can watch them laugh in your face.
I can think whatever you want about the pre-invasion decision (when the "war" occurred"), but the current effort to provide security to Iraq is a humanitarian effort. The coalition is sacrificing to help regular Iraqis, as far as I can tell. The current "problem causers" are the people kidnapping children and blowing themselves up in the name of God knows what. The self serving thing to do now would be to just leave, and let the remaining Iraqis descend into chaos and civil war. Is that your suggestion, or what?
The decent thing to do would be to leave before we screw up their country any more than its screwed. I can't stand to watch the evening news any more. Iraq looks worse with each passing day.
You would think you hawks would get it. Nothing has gone right since shock and awe over two years ago. Most people would understand that they've screwed up but not you guys.....knowingly grasping at straws, you all claim hopefully that the WAR is almost won as soon as they clear out the insurgents in another Fallujah or when they have another election or when the govt is turned over to the Iraqis or when the purple index fingers are waved in the air. Just one more hill to climb; one more stream to ford. What a joke. This war was ill conceived and based on lies, greed and arrogance. It doesn't have a chance of working......any fool should know that by now.
But I agree, it should have nothing to do with partisan politics. I think GB is a fool, and I generally vote Democrat mainly on the issues of abortion and gun control (I think it should be the women's decision, and I think you don't need a gun). But if you consider obligation are to do what is best for the world (as I do) and no to do what is supposedly best for the US (Ted's apparent view) then it is your obligation to help an oppressed enslaved people get free of their enslaver. Although that is not the reason GB led the US to war (something about WMDs), it's the reason I think it was and is a just and moral effort.
What I believe is best for the US is also best for this world. This world does not need to have a superpower running amok with incompetents at its helm. |
