Wrong. Bush is the Commander in Chief. He is no longer the juvenile delinquent escaping from responsibilty by plunging into the tequila bottle. He is the CIC and is RESPONSIBLE.
It is a sad state of affairs that this is so but there it is.
You do understand, right, that the idea of Iraq was to cut off the head of the snake, put Chalabi in charge, privatize the oil and/or flood cheap oil into the world, decimate OPEC and make Israel the most powerful country in the region....or something to that effect. The actual mystical fantastical goal depended on whose oily dream it was.
Disbanding the Army without removing weaponry was a mistake? How about INVADING A SOVEREIGN COUNTRY ILLEGALLY?
You still don't get it do you. Why is that?
Did you read what I said? The Selective Service says it can implement a draft in 6 weeks. That means, in 6 months or so you can have fresh recruits. The invasion of Iraq was by choice. There was no timeframe involved.
Bush could have gotten his 500,000 troops together and THEN invaded Iraq but he didn't think anything through. Bush doesn't read, doesn't understand history, doesn't understand anything but his personal entitlement to squat in the oval office and DO NOTHING but what he dang well pleases for his own personal profit.
Do you not understand that this is how this adminstration thinks?
Recruitment sucks in the Army, but not so in other branches, because it's the Army that's mired in Iraq. Therefore, your idea of employment doesn't hold true.
I have no problem with a no-deferement draft and an across the board mandatory service.
You're telling me what you see. I'm telling you what has been reported by more than one media outlet including that bit about in room internet access.
I'm not criticizing individual soldiers, I'm critizing THE WAR. Morale would be boosted across the board if all soldiers and marines et al could COME HOME ASAP. The power and the criticism belongs to Washington.
Since IEDs appear to be such a significant source of casualties and fatalities in Iraq, I believe a bomb guy should have more than a Leatherman in his pants pockets. That bomb guy is very important to the effort and should be well protected so he can teach his skills to others.
I don't know why he can't get $600s for his brakes or why the only options for him are street clothes or the michelin man outfit in 120 degree heat. I'm saying as in all things...put the dang resources into solving the real problem.
What you still fail to understand is that the Bushies never meant to leave Iraq...ever. There's the $1-2 billion most-expensive-building-ever 3,000 person largest-embassy-in-the-world somewhere in Baghdad. There are the 14 permanent bases.
They meant to occupy it as the outpost for the ExxonMobil Empire. Who knows if they still do or not?
Gee. Have you gone off your rocker? The fundamentalism, the Constitution, the divisiveness, the weak federalism, the violence have nothing to do with being Iraqis or Chinese or British or Dutch or Americans or Canadians or anything.
It has to do with a region that has strong ethnic and religious divisions and a history of oppression and repression suddenly thrust into a POWER VACUUM. When humans are presented with this once in a century opportunity, they look for personal power out of that chaos. It's a POWER GRAB courtesy of the Bush administration.
If China came and took out the government in Washington and told Republicans that majority Democrats were now going to take power, what would Republicans do? Would they go home and say, okey dokey? Of course not.
It's a human thing.
My, agenda, is to stop bleeding the US taxpayer dry for war profiteering and gross incompetence. My agenda is to have a decent government that can balance the budget, stay out of ruinously stupid ventures, not steal from me and take the problem of competitiveness seriously.
Why isn't that YOUR AGENDA as well? |
