Posted by
slacker on Friday, October 20, 2006 11:16:23 AM
It is high time for Conservatives to wake up and see the mess their beloved war has created. Its time for all of us to vote Democratic this November. Its time for them to get out of the way.
I DON'T CARE WHOSE FAULT THE WAR IS!
There may be much to be learned about how to restructure and remission our intelligence community to better protect ourselves by rehashing who did or did not do what prior to 9/11. But I don't think we learn much by trying to lay blame at the foot of Clinton, Bush, Wolfowitz, Cheney, etc for the attack on the towers.
I DO CARE WHETHER WE WIN OR NOT!
After 9/11 "everything changed" though, which is one thing I agree with conservatives on. I also agree that there will be immense consequences to this war of choice and whether we are perceived to have won or lost. Where I don't agree with them is their stubborn, blind ideological bias that let Chalabi and his fellow travelers in this administration (Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Feith, and in the shadows all the while good old Kissinger) hoodwink the US into invading Iraq without a plan to secure the country after the fall of Baghdad.
WHY THIS ADMINISTRATION IS A SHIP OF FOOLS
Where I begin to see them as blind fools who are incredibly dangerous to our future is after their compounding of this mistake - which is arguably the worst US military blunder in the last century.
They failed to see or stop the looting and brewing insurgency. They failed to equip our soldiers to fight the war they were actually in and insisted they fight the war they wanted to fight. They tore apart the Iraqi army -- the only hope for an indigenous force for stability and reconstruction -- and turned it into a recruiting ground for the insurgents.
They put too few troops in place to stop the key insurgents from escaping the country with weapons and money to establish their murderous campaign in relative sifted. They rounded up hundreds of Iraqis with no proof of ties to the insurgency and threw them into understaffed prison camps and abused them which turned them into more eager recruits for the insurgents.
They squandered billions of our tax dollars on grandiose multi year high tech development projects with minimal immediate returns instead of quick, targeted projects with immediate returns that could be protected and demonstrate to Iraqis they were better off economically after Saddam than before.
All the while they talked down to us and their right wing talk show hosts and spin doctors regaled us back at home with inanities and twaddle like "this is the last throes", the only ones not on our side are dead enders and so on.
They alienated our allies and systematically savaged any US military leader who dared to criticize the stupidities of Rumsfeld and Bremer and ended their careers. They railed against any reporters -- even those embedded with our soldiers on THEIR OWN TERMS NOT THE TERMS of the PRESS -- who dared to write the truth. They insisted that truth was lies and fairy tales were truth.
They dithered while the mullahs and militias gradually accumulated more and more power and corrupted and crippled every emerging government to the point where it is almost completely dysfunctional. And now it shows all the signs of becoming another failed state or becoming more dependent on Iran and Hezbollah than the US and Europe for stability and reconstruction -- should we ever draw down our forces without some deep preparation, strategy and planning.
All the right wing fools on this web site dance around with their hands covering their eyes refusing to see the mess their boys in Washington have made. They scream at the top of their lungs that democrats don't have a plan while covering their eyes and refusing to see any plan other than their own...
YES VIRGINIA THERE IS A PLAN
... NO DEMOCRAT PLAN YOU SAY!!!.... Just go look at Joe Biden's web site. He puts forth a detailed plan, and its NOT "cut and run". You may not agree with it but at least lets encourage people to discuss it and make it better.
We can discuss it here.
The conservatives are the ones with no plan. And they don't want you to know that anyone else has one. They say "Just do the same old stuff that has failed time and time again, not just in this war, but in others as well." And rant and rail that anyone who dares disagree with them is not patriotic but a tool of the enemy. They want you to bury your head deeper into the sand while they throw more and more resources and the blood of our soldiers into the pit of chaos they have created.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg.