I'd appreciate it if a lot of the talking heads in my TV box would stop saying that the changes the voters made in officeholders in the 2006 election is an unequivocal call for an immediate and complete pullout.
Change can be something other than just a swing to the exact opposite direction.
Part of my voter motivation in the 2006 Election was predicated on a desire for change of direction in the Iraq War.
Other parts included huge amounts of disatisfaction with the techniques, policies, attitudes, actions, rhetoric and corruption with incumbents and other party runners.
I voted for changes regarding the Iraq war, because I want to see things like: generals talking, and being listened to; what the social and political reconstruction plans are and why those specific ones were chosen; about the obstacles and the overcomes; and how the Iraqi in the street is doing. I want to see things that are working, or at least have an educated hope of working.
Iraq is a quagmire; and we've gotten it all over us. I'd rather not have the stain of the cataclysmic aftermath that is currently expectable with an immediate complete pullout remaining on our national psyche.
We dethroned their government. Our conscience says we owe it to them to at least leave them in as stable an environment as they had before we interrupted things.
The idea of sending in more troops for a limited mission to help the Iraq government get a firmer foothold, before we pull out, sounds about right.
Then we can cross our fingers and pray to our almighty that it sticks; because if it doesn't, we will be faced with a sense of doom and a feeling of obligation to go back and try to fix it again.
We need to exit this just right; or we'll end up all in the wrong.
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Also, you might try democracy. I'm afraid that studying communism and socialism will not give you insight into the workings or ideology of the Democratic party's mind. Good Luck.
I do agree that we need ot get out of Iraq, but not a mass exodus, which would be more insane than the current plan. What we need is a better plan.
C'mon, southpaws -- give me your better plan.
United We Stand.. or so the philosophy goes.
John - The Democrats of today or not the Democrats of the 1930s and 40s; and plenty of Democrats died for our country in WWII, as well.
The Middle East still has Israel and I'm pretty sure that South America is still mostly Catholic.
This spinning is coming from some Republican mouthpieces as well.
Joe - That sounds like it might wield some pressure. Who is in charge of the revenue stream from the Iraq oil? Are we required by our allies to keep the Iraq oil money flowing to Iraqis and out of our hands; or are we contractually bound to let Haliburtun have it?
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donna - Hey, now.. don't be calling any names. We're aiming for civil discourse here.
Joe - Oil is today's water, eh? The monopolies rule. It's such a shame. You'd think humanity would have come further by now.
It would be a sad stain on our country's religious persona if the middle east explodes into a further conflagration because of our government's desire for corporate oil profits.
I wish the greed mongers would hurry up and get their minds around the energy in outer space. Solar power unhampered by an atmosphere; the ability to work in weightless environments; materials not yet discovered; the implications astound the mind. We need to be expanding off this rock.