tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137997322301347949.post3406665766912985259..comments2023-07-04T06:58:32.627-04:00Comments on View on the News: Mission still accomplished?Moehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13612323587459830074noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137997322301347949.post-9017871376235614802008-03-23T22:38:00.000-04:002008-03-23T22:38:00.000-04:00The empire is crumbling. It cannot maintain it's f...The empire is crumbling. It cannot maintain it's foreign outposts much longer. The President should order this sham to end. It is the only hope for the future. The Iraqi people were better off under Hussein. They has water, electric, education and comparative safety. If one must smash a country to bits to expand the empire's reach, I want no part of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137997322301347949.post-36284577857489886312008-03-23T19:26:00.000-04:002008-03-23T19:26:00.000-04:00There is no solution to getting out other than who...There is no solution to getting out other than wholesale abandonment like we did in Vietnam. Will it make us look bad? Maybe. But what's worse, looking bad for going in in the first place and screwing up "the peace." or loking bad for admitting that we have failed?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137997322301347949.post-22053306086773464682008-03-23T07:45:00.000-04:002008-03-23T07:45:00.000-04:00I originally supported the Iraq invasion. I was na...I originally supported the Iraq invasion. I was naive enough to think that we might be able to do some good there, maybe bring democracy and freedom to a country that had been held hostage by a despotic, murderous dictator. Like I said, I was naive. <BR/><BR/>The fact is that these maniacs have been fighting amongst themselves for centuries, and nothing is going to change that. This will sound racist, and it might be, but people in that part of the world are just slightly beneath the rest of the civilized world in terms of being able to function like normal people. I don't know...it could be the oppressive desert heat has damaged a part of their brains. <BR/><BR/>Whatever the cause of their propensity to violence, we are not going to be able to change it. I tend to not be very vocal about the war since I don't have a solution to the problem, and I certainly don't have an exit strategy that will get our troops home safely and leave that country in anything but a new state of anarchy with another dictator. (I have no tolerance for those who rant and rage about the war and us getting out, but have no solution to offer. Are you reading this, Hillary? McCain? Obama?)<BR/><BR/>When you're fighting an enemy who considers it an honor to blow oneself up, you're not going to win. Throw in whiny bleeding hearts wringing their hands because they consider a dog barking in a prisoner's face an "atrocity" and you have a no-win situation. Again, I have no solution, but I wanted to express my opinion.PRIguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11402611293396468676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137997322301347949.post-17802817988051111672008-03-19T15:03:00.000-04:002008-03-19T15:03:00.000-04:00I Was going to say that Bush is a hopeless, blind ...I Was going to say that Bush is a hopeless, blind fool But it's been said before. Golly! The "surge" worked but it won't work if it stops! That's like saying the tide will be low when it isn't high. You're thin because you bought a girdle.<BR/><BR/>As for violence being down, does it really qualify as "down" because Iraqis are being blown up in a different part of town? Again, that's like saying crime has dropped Downtown because the crooks moved to the suburbs. <BR/><BR/>It took the US what .. 15 years to get out of Vietnam? And 'Nam didn't have oil. Why should we expect to ever get out of Iraq?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com