November 21, 2005 -- QUIT. It's that simple. There are plenty of more complex ways to lose a war, but none as reliable as just giving up.
Increasingly, quitting looks like the new American Way of War. No matter how great your team, you can't win the game if you walk off the field at half-time. That's precisely what the Democratic Party wants America to do in Iraq. Forget the fact that we've made remarkable progress under daunting conditions: The Dems are looking to throw the game just to embarrass the Bush administration.
Forget about the consequences. Disregard the immediate encouragement to the terrorists and insurgents to keep killing every American soldier they can. Ignore what would happen in Iraq "” and the region "” if we bail out. And don't mention how a U.S. surrender would turn al Qaeda into an Islamic superpower, the champ who knocked out Uncle Sam in the third round.
Forget about our dead soldiers, whose sacrifice is nothing but a political club for Democrats to wave in front of the media. After all, one way to create the kind of disaffection in the ranks that the Dems' leaders yearn to see is to tell our troops on the battlefield that they're risking their lives for nothing, we're throwing the game.
Forget that our combat veterans are re-enlisting at remarkable rates "” knowing they'll have to leave their families and go back to war again. Ignore the progress on the ground, the squeezing of the insurgency's last strongholds into the badlands on the Syrian border. Blow off the successive Iraqi elections and the astonishing cooperation we've seen between age-old enemies as they struggle to form a decent government.
Just set a time-table for our troops to come home and show the world that America is an unreliable ally with no stomach for a fight, no matter the stakes involved. Tell the world that deserting the South Vietnamese and fleeing from Somalia weren't anomalies "” that's what Americans do.
While we're at it, let's just print up recruiting posters for the terrorists, informing the youth of the Middle East that Americans are cowards who can be attacked with impunity.
Whatever you do, don't talk about any possible consequences. Focus on the moment "” and the next round of U.S. elections. Just make political points. After all, those dead American soldiers and Marines don't matter "” they didn't go to Ivy League schools. (Besides, most would've voted Republican had they lived.)
America's security? Hah! As long as the upcoming elections show Democratic gains, let the terrorist threat explode. So what if hundreds of thousands of Middle Easterners might die in a regional war? So what if violent fundamentalism gets a shot of steroids? So what if we make Abu Musab al-Zarqawi the most successful Arab of the past 500 years?
For God's sake, don't talk about democracy in the Middle East. After all, democracy wasn't much fun for the Dems in 2000 or 2004. Why support it overseas, when it's been so disappointing at home?
Human rights? Oh, dear. Human rights are for rich white people who live in Malibu. Unless you can use the issue to whack Republicans. Otherwise, brown, black or yellow people can die by the millions. Dean, Reid & Pelosi, LLC, won't say, "Boo!"
You've got to understand, my fellow citizens: None of this matters. And you don't matter, either. All that matters is scoring political points. Let the world burn. Let the massacres run on. Let the terrorists acquire WMD. Just give the Bush administration a big black eye and we'll call that a win.
The irresponsibility of the Democrats on Capitol Hill is breathtaking. (How can an honorable man such as Joe Lieberman stay in that party?) Not one of the critics of our efforts in Iraq "” not one "” has described his or her vision for Iraq and the Middle East in the wake of a troop withdrawal. Not one has offered any analysis of what the terrorists would gain and what they might do. Not one has shown respect for our war dead by arguing that we must put aside our partisan differences and win.
There's plenty I don't like about the Bush administration. Its domestic policies disgust me, and the Bushies got plenty wrong in Iraq. But at least they'll fight. The Dems are ready to betray our troops, our allies and our country's future security for a few House seats.
Surrender is never a winning strategy.
Yes, we've been told lies about Iraq "” by Dems and their media groupies. About conditions on the ground. About our troops. About what's at stake. About the consequences of running away from the great struggle of our time. About the continuing threat from terrorism. And about the consequences for you and your family.
What do the Democrats fear? An American success in Iraq. They need us to fail, and they're going to make us fail, no matter the cost. They need to declare defeat before the 2006 mid-term elections and ensure a real debacle before 2008 "” a bloody mess they'll blame on Bush, even though they made it themselves.
We won't even talk about the effect quitting while we're winning in Iraq might have on the go-to-war calculations of other powers that might want to challenge us in the future. Let's just be good Democrats and prove that Osama bin Laden was right all along: Americans have no stomach for a fight.
As for the 2,000-plus dead American troops about whom the lefties are so awfully concerned? As soon as we abandon Iraq, they'll forget about our casualties quicker than an amnesiac forgets how much small-change he had in his pocket.
If we run away from our enemies overseas, our enemies will make their way to us. Quit Iraq, and far more than 2,000 Americans are going to die.
And they won't all be conservatives.
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Some thing we really need to do is learn how to win a war!
Wya's daddy screwed this up the first time in Gulf War 1.Just had to pull the 100 hour victory instead of listening to the people in charge of the war.Now Wya sits on his hands to scared to send enough troops to finish this mess.We send troops to ride around and be bomb fodder instead of killing ever nut job with a bomb making video.Why do we wait untill our men get hit 10-12 times before we go in to these towns and kill the terrorist.
The Americans will support a fighting war but just being an occupying force is not what we train Marines for.
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I would like to see the troops come home but pulling outbefore the job is done will result in an instant civil war in Iraq. If democracy is to succeed over thereand eventually spread to adjoining countries we need to stay the course.
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Wya's daddy screwed this up the first time in Gulf War 1.Just had to pull the 100 hour victory instead of listening to the people in charge of the war
One of the main people in charge of the military was Colin Powell who insisted that we pull out of Iraq the first time around. Dubya Sr. shouldn't ahve listened to him.
As far as not having enough troops, I'm guessing that if there were enough troops to conquer all of Iraq in a few weeks time in the first place, it really doesn't matter at this point if you doubled , tripled or quadrupled the number of occupying troops- the terrorist insurgents are still going to fight and fight dirty.
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"Stormman Norman" was the man running the military during Gulf War I,he wanted to go to Bagdad while they were kickin butt the first time.
This time we gave Saddam time to setup & plan this insurgency.These nutjubs run from city to city bombing & raiseing holy he!!.Our men are spread thin chasing them around.We don't have enough men to hold these towns and the insurgents move back in after we move on.The training of Iraqy troops is taking to long,they need to learn how to protect their own people.
These nutjubs run from city to city bombing & raiseing holy he!!.Our men are spread thin chasing them around.We don't have enough men to hold these towns and the insurgents move back in after we move on.The training of Iraqy troops is taking to long,they need to learn how to protect their own people.
Jim, according to whom?
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These nutjubs run from city to city bombing & raiseing holy he!!.Our men are spread thin chasing them around.We don't have enough men to hold these towns and the insurgents move back in after we move on.The training of Iraqy troops is taking to long,they need to learn how to protect their own people.
Jim, You seem to have forgotten the involvement of the coalition and the predefined objective of freeing Kuwait in the Gulf War.
Your view of the current tactics against the insurgents is at odds with the military. They don't think they need more troops. The plan is to decrease them in the coming months.
Your view that the world revolves around a Bush is simplistic and fails to recognize the complexities involved.
Your view that the world revolves around a Bush is simplistic and fails to recognize the complexities involved.
As the leader of the only super power in the world Wya does try to rule a large portion of the world.His trade practices are ment to increase our control over foriegn lands.If their economy is under our control so is there well being.That is something we should look at with China!
Jim, You ought to read the World is Flat by Tom Friedman. There are far greater forces at work in the global economy than W.
Do you know what was on his agenda to discuss with the Chinese and ***anese. Suggest you research it and then decide if the items were in the best interest of this country or not.
How to lose a war
