The New York Times this Sunday had an editorial titled “The Road Home”. It is a detailed look at the Iraq situation today and what we need to do; go home is their answer.
Some of my friends concede that the Bush administration has totally flubbed the war in Iraq from lying about the reasons for the war to total incompetence in prosecuting the war BUT they keep saying “we cannot just leave”.
Well, that argument no longer holds water if it ever did; Iraq cannot get any worst but it can get better if we leave. A de-facto civil war has been in progress for a while and the slaughter has only escalated.
The editorial in the Times confirms what I and many others have been saying; the war is lost and it is wrong to keep killing and maiming our soldiers for no good reason.
On the other hand, what I and many others have been suggesting is happening anyway; the country is splitting into three (3): Kurds, Sunni and Shia. We would have saved many lives if we just divided the place at the outset.
The Iraqi government, as predicted, cannot govern because of sectarianism so why even have one, let the individual areas govern themselves and let us develop and split the oil revenues between sectors.
Keep a U.S. military presence in the north of Iraq to keep other countries from invading but other than that, we pull out of Iraq.
We have Bosnia as a historical example, so why are we so goddamn stupid, excuse me, why is Bush so goddamn stupid.
Bush will continue the war until his term expires and then will blame the incoming president for losing the war; we need to stop him now.
More and more Republicans are deserting Bush but they are being political about it and not asking for the war to end but just to change our war policy.
The Democrats are going to start an offensive this week, I hope, that will make the republicans either shit or get off the pot, no more sitting on the fence.
And please don’t give me that shit about supporting our troops, the only support they need is for us to get them the hell out of there!
Some of my friends concede that the Bush administration has totally flubbed the war in Iraq from lying about the reasons for the war to total incompetence in prosecuting the war BUT they keep saying “we cannot just leave”.
Well, that argument no longer holds water if it ever did; Iraq cannot get any worst but it can get better if we leave. A de-facto civil war has been in progress for a while and the slaughter has only escalated.
The editorial in the Times confirms what I and many others have been saying; the war is lost and it is wrong to keep killing and maiming our soldiers for no good reason.
On the other hand, what I and many others have been suggesting is happening anyway; the country is splitting into three (3): Kurds, Sunni and Shia. We would have saved many lives if we just divided the place at the outset.
The Iraqi government, as predicted, cannot govern because of sectarianism so why even have one, let the individual areas govern themselves and let us develop and split the oil revenues between sectors.
Keep a U.S. military presence in the north of Iraq to keep other countries from invading but other than that, we pull out of Iraq.
We have Bosnia as a historical example, so why are we so goddamn stupid, excuse me, why is Bush so goddamn stupid.
Bush will continue the war until his term expires and then will blame the incoming president for losing the war; we need to stop him now.
More and more Republicans are deserting Bush but they are being political about it and not asking for the war to end but just to change our war policy.
The Democrats are going to start an offensive this week, I hope, that will make the republicans either shit or get off the pot, no more sitting on the fence.
And please don’t give me that shit about supporting our troops, the only support they need is for us to get them the hell out of there!
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