Wayne, And you don't think the right had a policy of calling the surge a success no matter how lousy it was? And how the thing they are calling success, breaking up the country into vigilante areas, is the opposite of what they hoped to accomplish?
You are totally wrong about the left. Most Democrats in the House and Senate bought into the scam that the surge is a limited success. I hold them to blame for abeting Bush and Co. in this crime. The only Senator to show any courage was Warner, who is, of course, in the GOP and is quitting. Biden shows flashes of courage, but then he is back in a pink tutu again, along with Kerry and McCain.
Bush is still in the war for several reasons: 1. It isn't the people he cares about who are fighting and dying for his war, so nobody is getting hurt. 2. He doesn't want to admit the truth, that Iraq was better off under Saddam than under Bush. Both are ruthless dictators in that sad country, but Saddam had the electricity working and the oil pumps pumping. 3. He wants the next President, Demodumb or Republicrook, to take the blame for the disaster Bush created. 4. He and his friends are skimming a huge amount off the billions we are paying to make this iRock float. 5. He has even less ideas about how to run a withdrawal and a fighting retreat than he does about nation building.
We have to look beyond Iraq. Our Army and Marine Corps are wrecked. The Navy and Air Force are in good shape, but ground troops are scarce and getting scarcer. This debacle did teach us that a lot of our basic equipment is inadequate. That the VA system is inadequate for the number of returning combat vets with problems. And that running a war where 99% of the citizens make no sacrifice is dumb. |
