Surge
The administration's "New Plan for Iraq" is becoming much clearer now, and it's worse than any of us could have thought.
When I first started hearing about "surging" the troop level last month, I thought it sounded idiotic enough on it's own. I mean, what possible good could another 15,000 troops do that the forces already there haven't been able to accomplish in 3 years, other than provide more targets for "insurgents" that we can't seem to find or stop anyway?
But this morning I hear that they're changing the mission from assisting the Iraqi forces to "securing the population."
Doesn't that just send chills down your spine? Ring any bells of "Advisers" in Vietnam?
Apparently, despite repeated claims that we won't get involved in a civil war in a foreign country, and despite the smackdown delivered by the American people to the administration in November, the solution that they've come up with isn't any sort of extrication out of this mess, but escalation instead.
So let's review. We went to war with Iraq because Saddam Hussein posed an immediate threat to the United States due to harboring weapons of mass destruction. When none were found, we were in Iraq to liberate the Iraqi people from a brutal dictator and secure the Middle East. When the Iraqi people fell into civil war and the Middle East became even more unstable, we were in Iraq to help the Iraqi forces regain control of the country. And when it has now become clear that the Iraqi forces either can't or won't restore control, we're in Iraq to what, kill everybody?
Now we know why Pelosi and some of the other Dems have been talking such a hardline about cutting the purse strings. The administration is yet again completely ignoring everyone around them and pursuing their own agenda regardless of what the majority of Americans want or what very intelligent people who know what they're talking about say. Let's just hope these new representatives and senators have the guts to do it.
But I swear the next time I hear one of the adminstration talking heads say that the American people want to "win" in Iraq I'm going to scream. Does anybody even know what "winning" in Iraq would mean? Why in the name of all that's holy is no one in power talking about impeaching this madman?
When I first started hearing about "surging" the troop level last month, I thought it sounded idiotic enough on it's own. I mean, what possible good could another 15,000 troops do that the forces already there haven't been able to accomplish in 3 years, other than provide more targets for "insurgents" that we can't seem to find or stop anyway?
But this morning I hear that they're changing the mission from assisting the Iraqi forces to "securing the population."
Doesn't that just send chills down your spine? Ring any bells of "Advisers" in Vietnam?
Apparently, despite repeated claims that we won't get involved in a civil war in a foreign country, and despite the smackdown delivered by the American people to the administration in November, the solution that they've come up with isn't any sort of extrication out of this mess, but escalation instead.
So let's review. We went to war with Iraq because Saddam Hussein posed an immediate threat to the United States due to harboring weapons of mass destruction. When none were found, we were in Iraq to liberate the Iraqi people from a brutal dictator and secure the Middle East. When the Iraqi people fell into civil war and the Middle East became even more unstable, we were in Iraq to help the Iraqi forces regain control of the country. And when it has now become clear that the Iraqi forces either can't or won't restore control, we're in Iraq to what, kill everybody?
Now we know why Pelosi and some of the other Dems have been talking such a hardline about cutting the purse strings. The administration is yet again completely ignoring everyone around them and pursuing their own agenda regardless of what the majority of Americans want or what very intelligent people who know what they're talking about say. Let's just hope these new representatives and senators have the guts to do it.
But I swear the next time I hear one of the adminstration talking heads say that the American people want to "win" in Iraq I'm going to scream. Does anybody even know what "winning" in Iraq would mean? Why in the name of all that's holy is no one in power talking about impeaching this madman?
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