This is the sort of thing that really nonplusses me.
The soldiers over there are not drafted - they are doing what they WANT to do. They WANTED to be soldiers. Iraq is a great place to do your job.
The left can't get it into their heads that not everybody thinks like them. They would be running from Iraq as fast as they can. Tail between the legs and whimpering.
Iraq is a strategic Disneyland for America. Leaving it? Why? Because Don and some other folks live to count soldiers lives lost?
Heck we lose lives all over the planet. We're not withdrawing from all these places, nor should we.
This is the power of the media and fixation. Put a poster with red and yellow leters in front of your face and soon its the only thing you're thinking of.
Folks wanted us out of Japan and Germany too. Mainly between 1946 and 1955. After that the media got over it, folks didn't care and it will be the same way with Iraq.
We'll be there, operating our major new Middle Eastern bases, till 2050 and beyond.
Once the media finds new things to cash in on, they'll move on. And most folks on the left will remember they really didn't give a damn about our soldiers anyway - if they even think about it in ten years.
Harsh? No. Absolutely true.
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- End to the Occupation
- Yo ER, you weenie!
- Time to re-label
- re: End to the Occupation
- It appears you have al Qaeda confused with the Taliban...... (n/t)
- Can I get fries with that?
- Nuclear safeguards
- re: Supersize?
- re: Absurd
- "We had to do it"
- You need to reread the president’s speeches prior to the war
- That would be 'speech', singular
- No speeches
- Allow me...
- Sure.
- Like I could stop you
- I wish I had your abilities to keep track of and find things.
- At best, liberation was a secondary, if not even tertiary reason
- You ought to review Powell's case before the UN (n/t)
- That would be 'speech', singular
- You need to reread the president’s speeches prior to the war
- (Sorry, meant for Tech1) (n/t)
- Why leave?
- Occupying countries where we are hated, creates terrorists. Or is that the goal? (n/t)
- John Howard on "creating terrorists"
- Could you reprint the BinLaden quotes where he talks about our occupation of his holy land? (n/t)
- While what Howard said was true, it was irrelevant to what alcaray said. (n/t)
- John Howard on "creating terrorists"
- re: Why leave?
- Why go in the first place?
- Occupying countries where we are hated, creates terrorists. Or is that the goal? (n/t)
- re: End to the Occupation
- I would agree