Dago,
I mean your right....so seaman rating decided all on their own to put up that mission accomplished sign. I mean the symbolism the White House wanted to create is unmistakable, unless you don't want to admit it.
I
'm not wrong, and where I have said I am not proud of the friends that I know that are serving?
I'm not sure why you even brought that up in a response to my posts. Nice try though Dago. But hey, I'm not a real American right? That's what the dimmer bulbs seem to say here.
I guess I'll take smartass over handsomehunk anyday.
Gunslinger,
Neither has anyone in this thread explained away the lack of WMD's, the fact that the ONLY person that has proved capable of striking us on our soil has yet to be caught.
The person on trial never demonstrated that they could do that. I know that he probably wanted to in his more nutjob moments, but he never did it, and the one who has is not on trial or even in custody.
And if we are losing so pitifully on the homefront don't you think that maybe there's a good reason for that, like the war we are in is not the war we were sold. Or how about Bush not doing a good job of convincing us that just because the eminent threat of Sadam's WMD's were apparently not there, but the reason is still just for causing the deaths of American citizens.
I am no dove, but I do want Bush to be accountable for his misrepresentation. His degree of accountability is higher than the average citizen because his decisions have higher consequences associated with them.
Listen, if this cause of Iraq was so just, then why the shell game with the justification for getting us there. Why didn't he just say, Regime Change is the reason and we are here to spread freedom to the Iraqi's from the get go? Why not make that the case to the American people.
Answer that one. Why the WMD fib then?
And the Dems don't get a free pass on this. They went with it and authorized it as well. They don't get the luxury of playing both sides.
I am all for projecting our power around the globe, even to the point of engaging in war. So do not misread me here. I do not think Iraq action was the best use to leverage our power. It is not Lib or Con or any of that, period.
It is much more pragmatic than all that cheerleader stuff they sell us. It is about lives, dollars and global leadership. It is about showing don't screw with us, but that we can also be trusted with our leadership role to use this power to its utmost advantage for the US. And loosing credibility on the reasons for going into this does not do that.
We are there, and we need to clean it up. But being critical of the Admin is not aiding and abetting the enemy. That is so hyperbolic to be laughable.
