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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (74240)	11/18/2006 10:19:45 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 93284

Even with the additional troops that McCain wants, all that it would result in is more killing - of US troops and Iraqi civilians. McCain is still caught up in the logical error that there are only so many insurgents and if they just killed them all the war would be over. Only the kids with flowers who love us would be left. Such thinking is beyond ignorant, it is stupid. TP

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (74240)	11/19/2006 9:45:35 AM
From: tonto	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

You failed to mention terrorists and insurgents too. War is not good but since you say, democrats want our soldiers to stay there for their party sake...(how pitiful) then we all expect people to die. Iraqis will continue to die after we leave too. That is what happens in war. Sorry to see you place your party ahead of our soldiers lifes. At least you are honest enough to show how shallow partisans truly are... Most of the Democrats want Dumbyass to continue the mess in Iraq so they can hang the Republicans like McCain with it in the 2008 elections.

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (74240)	11/19/2006 10:06:31 AM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93284

The Final Say by Eric Margolis \| Nov 19 2006 - 8:37am \| permalink article tools: email \| print \| read more Eric Margolis American voters' dramatic repudiation of President George Bush and the ouster of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was a major political earthquake whose aftershocks will be felt around the globe. The odd-bedfellow's coalition that formed Bush's core political support -- rural southerners, evangelical doomsday cultists, neoconservative Israel lobbyists, and big business interests -- was beaten by mainstream America. Moderate Republican wise men like Jim Baker and Gen. Brent Scowcroft, representing the party's traditional Northeastern leadership, have been recalled from exile to clean up Bush's Iraq debacle. They, and other respected bipartisan figures, are also heading the invigorated Iraq Study Group. The group is designed to provide political cover for a phased withdrawal from Iraq, and dilute blame for the war. When the inevitable cry, "who lost Iraq?" begins, Republicans that championed this stupid war, and Democrats who foolishly voted for it, will huddle together for shelter behind the Iraq study's conclusion that everyone, and thus no one, was really guilty of losing a major war and diminishing America's global power. The Republican's November electoral meltdown opens the way for the party's Eastern moderates to purge the GOP of ideological and religious extremists, and return to its roots as the party of Dwight Eisenhower, America's greatest postwar president. Eisenhower, a true moderate conservative, advocated balanced budgets, small government, avoidance of foreign entanglements, nuclear disarmament, and restraining the military industrial complex. Some of the most capable Democrats, like incoming House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Senators Joseph Biden and longtime Iraq war opponents, Senators Carl Levin and Robert Byrd,will assume key Congressional roles. However, the ruinous splits that long crippled the Democrats are already re-opening. The new Democratic and Republican leadership will hopefully returnAmerica's politics to the traditional moderate centre, and begin restoring America's battered reputation. The new Congress will restore America's vital system of political checks and balances that was corrupted into one-party rule during the Bush years by fear-mongering and war fever. Continues war talk However, undaunted by his recent shellacking, Bush continues to foment war against Iran. The president, whose polls are an abysmal 30%, just met with an even more despised leader, Israel's PM Ehud Olmert, whose polls are at 20%, to plan attacking Iran. They conferred with another discredited fabricator, Britain's Tony Blair. This axis of blunderers appears determined to engineer war against Iran while Bush's right-wing Republicans still control Congress. Israel's American supporters and religious TV demagogues are whipping up evangelical Christians into an anti-Iran crusade. As the New York Times put it: "For evangelicals, supporting Israel is God's Foreign Policy." This also applies to Canada's new leader, born-again evangelical Stephen Harper, who has managed the unique feat of turning much of the Muslim World -- and now China -- against Canada. While neocon die-hards agitate for war, the new Democratic and moderate Republican leadership face the delicate and dangerous task of extricating American troops from the president's lost war in Iraq. Having destroyed Iraq, the U.S. must now find a way to contain the many dangers that will emanate from its smoking ruins. Now is the time for America's enemies around the world, many created by the Bush administration's own reckless, belligerent policies, to declare a ceasefire and allow Washington's new moderate leadership time to bring America back to a political and moral even keel. End Bush's crusade But six years of grave damage to America's foreign interests and good name are not easily undone. The new Congress should declare an end to Bush's crusade against the Muslim World. But the Democratic leadership will face intense domestic special interest pressures to wage wars against Iran and other Muslim states. It probably won't happen, but one can still hope the new Congress will reaffirm America's traditional moral values by bringing to justice all those senior administration officials that concocted the unnecessary war against Iraq and then authorized torture, kidnapping, secret prisons, wiretapping and many other grave violations of America's Constitution. _______ About author Eric Margolis is a columnist for the Toronto Sun. His web site is foreigncorrespondent.co