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VanGogh (not verified) says:
To mr trail safety:
Bravo! Good response. I liked yours better than mine! It’s nice to see that someone else knows their history. You make a good point about Bush 1. He was a much better President than his son could ever be. He has a brain. And thank you for reminding me what Cheney said when asked by Martha Raddatz how he felt about polls showing two-thirds of Americans say the fight in Iraq and his answer was "SO?".
Now for a brief rant:
There you have it folks. Cheney and Bush DO NOT CARE what we think or how we feel about a war they started (Congress authorized it I know so they are to blame as well) but we (the people) are paying for...oh wait I forgot we're borrowing the money instead of paying for it…so they are creating trillions of dollars of debt for we the people to owe foreign Governments for years to come.
Our young men and women (as young as 18) are fighting and dying in Iraq five years later, despite the fact that the “threat” of Saddam is gone. He’s dead and so are his sons, there are no WMDs so why are we still there? Oh that’s right because as Colin Powell said “you break it, you own it”, and we sure do own it now.
You know who else had an interesting comment about our predicament in Iraq?
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Read carefully:
Zawahiri had explained al-Qaeda's strategy in response to what he was already decrying as a repressive U.S.-led occupation.
"We thank God," he declared in September 2003, "for appeasing us with the dilemmas in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Americans are facing a delicate situation in both countries. If they withdraw, they will lose everything, and if they stay, they will continue to bleed to death."
I’d say Bush’s “War on Terror” isn’t very effective. How do you wage war on a methodology? Terrorism is a method by which individuals try to achieve political or other goals (such as bringing down the US economy) through violence against civilians or government officials, when direct military victory isn’t possible.
That seems pretty clear so then tell me how attacking countries in the Muslim world will prevent the creation of Terrorists? In fact if you look at the incidents of Terrorism world wide you’ll see that Terrorism has increased!
I’m not suggesting that we do nothing, I just think out current strategy isn’t working. It’s time to try a different approach. We can’t stay at war forever! It isn’t financially feasible and short of instituting the draft, our military would collapse due to exhaustion. We’ve got soldiers that are on their FIFTH tour. That’s ridiculous. Our soldiers are human beings not machines.
How can a person say they support the troops when they are asking them to fight a never ending war?
To mr trail safety:
Bravo! Good response. I liked yours better than mine! It’s nice to see that someone else knows their history. You make a good point about Bush 1. He was a much better President than his son could ever be. He has a brain. And thank you for reminding me what Cheney said when asked by Martha Raddatz how he felt about polls showing two-thirds of Americans say the fight in Iraq and his answer was "SO?".
Now for a brief rant:
There you have it folks. Cheney and Bush DO NOT CARE what we think or how we feel about a war they started (Congress authorized it I know so they are to blame as well) but we (the people) are paying for...oh wait I forgot we're borrowing the money instead of paying for it…so they are creating trillions of dollars of debt for we the people to owe foreign Governments for years to come.
Our young men and women (as young as 18) are fighting and dying in Iraq five years later, despite the fact that the “threat” of Saddam is gone. He’s dead and so are his sons, there are no WMDs so why are we still there? Oh that’s right because as Colin Powell said “you break it, you own it”, and we sure do own it now.
You know who else had an interesting comment about our predicament in Iraq?
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Read carefully:
Zawahiri had explained al-Qaeda's strategy in response to what he was already decrying as a repressive U.S.-led occupation.
"We thank God," he declared in September 2003, "for appeasing us with the dilemmas in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Americans are facing a delicate situation in both countries. If they withdraw, they will lose everything, and if they stay, they will continue to bleed to death."
I’d say Bush’s “War on Terror” isn’t very effective. How do you wage war on a methodology? Terrorism is a method by which individuals try to achieve political or other goals (such as bringing down the US economy) through violence against civilians or government officials, when direct military victory isn’t possible.
That seems pretty clear so then tell me how attacking countries in the Muslim world will prevent the creation of Terrorists? In fact if you look at the incidents of Terrorism world wide you’ll see that Terrorism has increased!
I’m not suggesting that we do nothing, I just think out current strategy isn’t working. It’s time to try a different approach. We can’t stay at war forever! It isn’t financially feasible and short of instituting the draft, our military would collapse due to exhaustion. We’ve got soldiers that are on their FIFTH tour. That’s ridiculous. Our soldiers are human beings not machines.
How can a person say they support the troops when they are asking them to fight a never ending war?
VanGogh