October 21, 2005
What don't get they about "when the mission is completed?"
Oct. 21 - The
Washingto Post had an un-insightful item yesterday:
Rice Declines to Give Senators Timeline for Germany South Korea Iraq Withdrawal.
I could have included Bosnia/Serbia/Kosovo, Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa in the strike-outs, but it was already getting a tad long! (Feel free to add your own favourite "quagmire," but Los Angeles is off-limits!)
I hate to disappoint the Post, but most Americans understood going in that it would be a long-term committment. We also understood that sticking this through would meet our long-term objectives far more than cutting and running.
Having said that, it also grieves me that some of our best men and women are being killed and maimed over there. It just seems wrong that the intelligent idiots in their ivory towers babble on while those who many - including me - consider their betters are on the front lines.
Where are all those human shields, anyway? They would protect hospitals and electrical stations under Saddam's rule but not under Iraq home rule? Couldn't they at least protect the defense lawyers for Saddam's trial? (No link yet, but word has it that he has been found dead.) [07:45 - link now available here.
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Funny how Sean Penn seems to have crawled back under the woodwork like the roach he is.
Posted by: Jay at October 22, 2005 01:35 AM (PIbeE)
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Jay, I can't say I've missed Sean Penn! I'm guessing he hasn't tried to visit Saddam in jail - nor has Dan Rather, for that matter. Bunch of fair weather friends they turned out to be ... how typical of their kind.
Posted by: Debbye at October 24, 2005 09:20 AM (yegQF)
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No, most Americans did NOT realize this would be a long-term commitment. Don't you even remember the garbage that was sold to you and the rest of the American sheeple in the run-up to this little farce in Iraq? Did Bush try to sell it by saying how tough it would be? Hell no, as none of the Bushites, with Bush included, thought it would be anything other than a walk-over of a defenseless country. Only Americans are so effing simple as to be buy into a war that involves the premise of it being an effortless, bloodless conquest while simultaneously being told Iraq is some kind of "grave, gathering threat" requiring immediate action. No, believe me, if the Bushites had any inkling this would turn out like it has they would've most likely not tried it, and the average American would have likewise withheld his approval of this venture if he knew it would be like this. In case you haven't noticed, you're losing and this debacle in Iraq has been a showcase of American "military" weakness. Two and a half years into this and they still can't control the airport road in Baghdad!! Pathetic!!
Posted by: Jeremiah at October 27, 2005 12:11 PM (6/LqO)
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