Comments on: DEMS IN A QUANDRY ABOUT HOW BEST TO RETREAT FROM IRAQ

By: ed

ed — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:00:45 +0000

Um, SSheil, dude, Richard Nixon and Jerry Ford ended the war in Vietnam - remember the Paris negotiations, Kissinger’s Peace Prize, any of that sound familiar - at all? Not a Democrat ending there, but they fuzzled about in Vietnam enough on their own to be no heroes of that mess.

I notice you didn’t deny any of the facts I presented about who created the Iraq mess and what our options are, just a little unrelated history and some name calling. Nice try, but no cigar. And FYI, I am not a Democrat.

By: Neo

Neo — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:42:09 +0000

Unmentioned in all the hype .. a redeployment to Okinawa of troops may have enflamed the NoKo crisis and disrupted the agreement coming out of the 6-way talks.

What was Murtha thinking of anyway ?

By: SShiell

SShiell — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:25:26 +0000

“The Democrats are right. Declare victory and go home.” Just like they did in Viet Nam. But there the troops were already gone, they just needed to place the final nail in the coffin of their choice, Defund the South Vietnamese and the results of which became - the Killing fields of Cambodia and hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese suffering through years of re-education.

You and the Democrats go dig your own holes - it may be the only thing you may be good at.

By: ed

ed — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:58:24 +0000

Recent polls agree that the majority of Americans do not support the Iraq war and want the troops out. Perhaps a slow bleed is preferable after all to a “fast dismemberment and death”, the current strategy. If you think the U.S. has the political will to stay another 10 years (anti-insurgency experts ballpark figure for defeating an insurgency), you are insane.

Is Tony Blair and the British “retreating”? The dirty secret is that there is no honorable way out of Iraq for the United States except to just leave. The U.S. cannot(will not?)stay until the insurgency, civil war, religious in-fighting, and terrorist poking the U.S. in the eye desists.

The Democrats are right. Declare victory and go home. Sometime when you have dug yourself into a deep enough hole, the only sensible thing to do is stop digging. It is the only available option, like it or not. And lastly, the Democrats did not bring the shovel, start the digging, and have little responsibilty for backfilling the deep hole we find ourselves in, though it will be left for them to do.