War in Iraq – Some Inconvenient Truths
Bet you thought this would be left leaning didn’t you.
Well, it’s bad news here for anyone thats a Democrat or Liberal. Let us continue reading along and find uot JUST what I mean. Let’s run down the first inconvenient truths for some people like Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Ted Kennedy. First up! the surge.
First, one of the principal purposes of the surge is to persuade the Iraqi population that we are going to stay in their neighborhoods until the Iraqi army and police can take over and bring an end to violence. Only when they have confidence that we will not abandon them to the terrorists will Iraqis come forward—as they now appear to be doing—with information about who among them are the terrorists, militia members and other killers, and where they can be found.
What do you think is going to happen if our soldiers abandon these Iraqis and just leave as the Democrats wish to do? Do you think they will look at us in a good light or a bad one? If we abandon them…they will never forgive us.
Lets look at #2:
Second, although Senator Reid and other war opponents can glibly claim that there is no hope that an independent Iraq can survive, there is one group that is truly expert on that question, and they clearly don’t believe it. That group consists of the Iraqis who are now in the Iraqi government—from Prime Minister al-Maliki on down—who risk their lives and the lives of their families every day that they serve. They are Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, and all of them are targets of the insurgency and the terrorists of al Qaeda. What motive could these dedicated Iraqis possibly have to place themselves in such a position unless they believe that they can keep the country together and in the end produce a peaceful and unified state?
Exactly. why would we claim that an independant Iraq can’t survive when the Iraqi Government (you know…the people that run the place) claim that a stable Iraq can be a reality. The Iraqi government doesn’t want us to abandon them so why does Reed and all of his ilk so desperately wish to leave?
Numbah 3:
if—as seems apparent now—the surge is succeeding, opponents of the war are going to be hard-pressed to make the case for abandoning Iraq, even if there is no Shi’ite-Sunni political settlement in sight. The inconvenient truth here is that, apart from the irreconcilable Left, the American people’s support for withdrawal has been based on an assessment that we were losing the war. If that no longer seems true, support for withdrawal will melt away.
Bingo. that’s exactly what this all stems from. The Democratic leaders know that if the people of this country started seeing that we are winning in Iraq as opposed to losing as the MSN and the Democrats have said….well….the Dems would be stuck between a rock and a hard place. the Left clings to the notion that America is “losing” because they abhor anything regarding the military. They make it their purpose to try and defame the military because they are, and very proud of it, Anti-War/Anti-Military. However, the majority of people of America are not Anti-Military and pretty much all of them hate to lose. Americans are born winners and if the people start getting wind that we are actually kicking ass over there?
Well….lets just say the troops will have all the support they need.
Completely out of touch…sad. Another inconvenient truth: neoconservatives will eventually see the mess and not one of them will feel bad about it…no heart…no human emotion…just bitterness. They’re doing a great job of getting us all killed though.
Anarchy has been inserted into Iraq. It had to happen if the entire Iraqi army, police, detectives are sent home immediately on arrival of US troops in Baghdad. Where is the US Army.? Not close to harm’s way but in the gutter of harm and a can of worms.Surge is just a foolish, optimist thought. The ground realities are: Ammunition and weapons of US dead soldiers are in the hands of US enemies. Seconly, the Government is a puppet one;not likely to sort out matters. The US is now sitting on the fence expecting Iraqis to run a country from where they have been absent for atleast three decades. The face is Iraqi but he came on the US tanks. Now he expects money, troops, all responsibility from the US;whose people want no more lollipops of hope. The approval rating of the US President gone haywire. Sir, you got it all wrong. You are talking of XYZ before ABC.
Your mistakes are many- biggest is assuming that America, middle America wants out- because it thinks we are losing. No we want out be cause over and over again this administration has proven it doesn’t have a plan…and doesn’t have a clue. General Peteraeus, and the many soldiers who have served bravely, have done all they can- But Petraeus himself is on the record that there is NO military solution, only a political one.
The depth of this administrations misunderstanding of the region and people is matched only by the blindness of the 23% who still support this President’s war.
We shouldn’t have gone into Iraq to begin with, it was a terrible miscalculation. But now that we’re there we definitely can not just abandon them. However, we are definitely not taking the right course in Iraq. The troop surge is not going as planned, and more innocent Iraqi civilians are dieing every day than the amount of terrorists or American soldiers killed daily. It is a bad situation, that will only become worse due to corrupt politicians being unwilling to cross party lines to accomplish anything.