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Originally Posted by skippy3481
DTS i won't ever bash you for your opinions i may disagree strongly with them but I will never attack you personally. That being said I read your article. I just don't agree with most of it. Bush was going to get screwed either way. if we waited and saddam dropped his bombs somewhere 3 years down the road, the nation would have been up in arms about his lack of foresight to protect his country. Just because we haven't found WMD's doesn't mean they didn't exist. Maybe he had them, maybe he didn't we will never know. We can all suppose we know(we both suppose diffrent outcomes) but honestly the only people that know would be saddam and his officers. Beyond that, bush made a mistake with the battle plan and unfortunatly we are stuck with it. The democrats would go ape crazy if he asked for 400,000 more troops to go fix the job. I think that the american political party landscape has really skewed his options. We as americans and esp politicians are more concerned with saving face with the people and winning voters then actually solving the problems we face. Too much finger pointing.
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Skippy, the American PEOPLE would go crazy if Bush "asked for" 400,000 more soldiers, which quite frankly is about the number needed to have any chance of stabilizing Iraq. It's not the Dems. Read the Rolling Stone article-- not only do they have no power in gov't now, they don't even get to be at the debates over legislation. To really stabilize Iraq would mean bringing back the draft. Fat chance; Americans make a lot of noise about sacrifice, but it's usually someone else's sacrifice. If the draft were brought back, we'd pull out of Iraq in six months because Americans would go ape crazy at the thought of their kids being sent overseas. Most of these chicken hawks in Bush's gov't never served themselves; you think the average American is eager to serve?
Timm, the reason you don't read about liberals yelling today about Lincoln suspending habeus corpus is, oh, because it happened 140 YEARS AGO! And it was wrong then; virtually every historical account I've read about Lincoln's presidency say it was a mistake. And it's wrong now. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Pgardn-- smart AND modest! Tee hee.
Though I think Bush only saw the info he wanted to see and willfully ignored the rest and also hid the rest from those who might contradict what he wanted to do.