Despite the warnings that Iraq would sink into an internecine war, despite the FACT that we have no solution to the terrorists who would then make Iraq Afghanistan, we have a repeat of 22 Gia Long street on the horizon.
While I am against any increase in troops for its own sake, and against a reinforcement of FAILED STRATEGIES AND TACTICS, there is no way to avoid the conclusion that in withdrawing from Iraq, and in viewing the democratic party leaders first foray into foreign affairs, they have revealed themselves at the leadership level to be EXTREME.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid declared yesterday that "it is time to bring the war to a close" and warned President Bush that sending more U.S. troops to Iraq would be unacceptable to the Democratic majorities that have just taken over Congress.Directly challenging Bush's wartime leadership on their second day in charge on Capitol Hill, Democrats Pelosi (Calif.) and Reid (Nev.) sent Bush a letter suggesting that, instead of starting a short-term escalation, he begin a phased withdrawal of U.S. forces in the next four to six months. The mission of remaining troops, they said, should be shifted away from combat toward more training, logistics and counterterrorism.
The newly ascendant Democrats are trying to preempt the president before he announces his new strategy. As he prepares for a nationally televised address next week, officials said, Bush is considering three main options to bolster U.S. forces in Iraq: a relatively modest deployment of fewer than 4,000 additional troops, a middle-ground alternative involving about 9,000 and, the most aggressive idea, flowing 20,000 more troops into the country.
Can anyone doubt that the democratic result here will be to REPEAT the Israeli mistake in Lebanon?
The democratic leaders are for halting the casualties of american soldiers and instead protecting them with the lives of the american peoples endangered as result
Can there be a doubt that the terrorists emboldened as a result of Iraq's abandonment to the tune of the Nasrallahs....
will arrive in the USA convinced we are vulnerable?
Is there any doubt that whatever the reality WAS in 2003, Iraq is central to to the war against islamofascists now?
Is there any doubt that whatever the reality of a civil war without influence supply and incitement by Iraq and Syria, the now revealed democratic plan will yield the worst defeat for the USA since 1942?
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