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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (758593)	2/3/2007 6:13:50 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Well, as with everything of importance in life, it is not black and white....there are a thousand shades of grey. Fighting Terrorism is necessary. Fighting islamic terrorism is necessary. Sitting between warring factions of Shiite and Sunnis in Baghdad, Tikrit, Fallujah, Basra and many of the other cities is a no win situation. Republicans see this as clearly as do democrats or anyone else! When you say "much of Iraq is peaceful", it must be taken in context. Where there are 100% Shiite communities, they tend to be more peaceful. Kurdistan (way above Kirkuk) is peaceful...but where Sunni, Shiite and Kurd mix....there is no peace. Iraq is slowly, painfully, splitting itself. This was forseeable in 2003, and was forecast by many experts. They were Poo-poohed by the Administration and the neocon pundits. Well, they were right. And these same experts, along with all of our intelligence agencies now say the next 18 months won't be any better....the Iraq government won't stand up, the iraq defense forces won't fight, the corruption is rampant, the loyalty is not to Iraq as a nation, but to the Mullah or tribe or sect one belongs to. You seem somehow to feel that if we all "get behind our President" and keep our mouths shut, everything will be fine. I don't know why you feel this way. Do you really believe that the Sunnis who planted today's horrific bomb decided to do it because of Senator Warner's pending resolution in the Senate? I don't...I think it was done because it accomplished a sectarian objective... I have read plenty about 1938...I still don't understand the analogy. Who, exactly, is the Nazi Germany in the analogy? Iran? What nation-state are we capitulating to by pulling our troops back to the borders in Iraq (not out, back to the borders) and let the Shiite and the Sunni determine if they really want to fight or they want to have a government? Why are you so willing to forgive a policy so bungled and clumsy that even long-standing and respected republicans like Warner, Graham, Hagel, Snowcroft, Ford...can't take it. We can go a better direction. And I suspect it will be the old guard republicans who will eventually force it on the President. He'll get his surge. He'll get the money to support it. But most experience generals feel it won't work. And then where will we be, six months from now...GZ...what would be the next move in your mind, then?