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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DayTraderKidd who wrote (7633)	11/29/2006 10:44:15 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 15987

According to you, its always the liberals fault. It usually is.....but always is overstating....

To: DayTraderKidd who wrote (7633)	11/29/2006 2:05:37 PM
From: Chas.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Yes you are correct I have suggested that we cut our losses in Iraq...but I have always justified that remark by offering an alternative plan of action in a related post... My bottom line has not changed since 9/11... regards

To: DayTraderKidd who wrote (7633)	11/29/2006 7:22:16 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

You guys will do or say anything in order to be able to support the war while not sacraficing. ie... slapping on a pair of boots and doing some real fighting. I was in Iraq for almost 2 years and subjected to as much shelling and rocket attacks as the rest of the GIs in my compound. Does that mean I'm still one of those "guys" who hasn't sacrificed? What I find ironic, although I would like to keep the partisanship down on this thread, is that liberals like Clooney are heavily involved in trying to get the US to commit troops to stop the civil war in Darfur. Yet, at the same time, he shows no interest in preventing a civil war in Iraq. Somehow people dying in Iraq in wanton genocidal terrorist attacks does not rise to the same level as Janjawid horsemen trying to commit genocide. Additionally, I also can't tell you how many times I've heard a liberal tell me that life was better under Saddam than it is now. It's as if they would actually prefer to open the door to Saddam's cage and let him resume power. I don't understand this apparent cognitive dissonance in liberal foreign policy. We've obviously got some problems in dealing with the militant extremists on both sides of the religious fence in Iraq. And we've failed to nurture a sense of national unity that transcends religious or ethnic differences. And it certainly didn't help matters when Bremer fired the Iraqi army and put hundreds of thousands of soldiers on the streets, armed and really unhappy. But neither does it help create stability in Iraq when American politicians start showing our poker hand to the rest of the players by telling everyone they want to unilaterally pull US troops out of Iraq. Anyone notice that the level of violence in Iraq has gone up since the US election?? Hawk