GOP and Iraq
Your headline, “GOP prevails on Iraq after all-nighter,” had me laughing out loud. Yes, clearly, the GOP has prevailed on Iraq. They were wrong in their reasoning for starting the war, they have prosecuted the war ineptly, and they have no plan for ending the war. Perhaps “GOP prevails, America loses” would have been more to the point.
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Good letter LJ. If everyone who voted for W has gone to Iraq, or send a family member, this might have worked out better. But chickenhawks being the cowards that they are chose to put their heads in the sand (or an luxury SUV with a yellow ribbon) and believe the fabulous yarns of spreading democracy.
Posted by hikingartist on July 22, 2007 10:14 PMThe primaries haven't occurred yet, let alone the election. It still entirely possible that a Republican could win in 2008. I suspect that many people think the Republicans screwed up on Iraq big time, but they don't entirely trust the Democrats to handle the issue. Think about it, why do we keep hearing calls from certain elements to cut funding, in spite of the lack of support for such an action? In reality, the Democratic Party is deeply split on whether to cut the funding. Many people probably want out of Iraq, but are uneasy about the concept of simply cutoff funding, as opposed to gradually withdrawing troops or whatever the plan may be.
The Republicans have the advantage, as they can simply accuse the Democrats of "not wanting to fund the troops." (codeword for stay the course). The Democrats challenge is convincing people that they can handle the Iraq issue. By the same token, if a Republican ends up winning in 2008 they are going to have to deal with Iraq.
Posted by J567 on July 22, 2007 11:27 PMHere we go again with party line drivel. Both parties voted to go to Iraq..and both are screwing up on how to handle it now. Quit being sheep and think for yourselves instead of arguing stupid party talking points.
Posted by on July 23, 2007 07:41 AM7:41,
Not exactly correct.
The Party of Perpetual War, the GOP, and their masters, multi-national oil and defense corporations, waged a very succesful campaign (they lied), to convince Americans that we needed war to solve a law enforcement problem of how to deal with religious extremist thugs.
As you remember, the same problem confronted the Democratic administration in '93 at the same location, and William Jefferson Clinton and law enforcement had the religious extremist thugs in custody, AND convicted AND sentenced to life in prison WITHOUT voilating the provisions of our Constituition or international law.
And we didn't get hit again until Bush's watch.
That is a fact that has the GOP (and Americans) wondering how things could have gone SO wrong SO quickly.
In this case , it's not partisan at all, it's just the facts. Bush blew it.
It is painfully clear that this country will need years to recover from this administartion. Bush, Cheney and the others in their kennel are dangerous fools. Period.
Posted by gadfly on July 23, 2007 11:44 AM