Many Democrats have anticipated that, at best, Petraeus and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker would present a mixed analysis of the success of the current troop surge strategy, given continued violence in Baghdad. But of late there have been signs that the commander of U.S. forces might be preparing something more generally positive. Clyburn (D – S.C.) said that would be “a real big problem for us.”

Did you get that? Less bloodshed in Iraq is a problem for the democrats. I wonder if we can expect an earmark in the upcoming defense spending bill that would allocate funds to Al-Qaeda in Iraq so as to keep the fighting going until the democrats can secure the next election.

But if the government doesn’t have their game plan together by early 2008, then adios.”

They were saying all these same things during the Vietnam war. Just a little bit longer, we are taking it to the enemy, they are being disrupted, they are lacking the funds, they are lacking will, they are on the brink. Just a little bit longer, just a little bit longer, just a little bit more money, just a few more American troops, just a little more time. Again, and again and again.

Spiro Agnew was accusing the American media of being “Enemy Lovers” and reporting only the “bad news” and thus giving aid to our enemies. He of course was a political ninny, the sort we see today like Donald Rumsfeld.

They said exactly the same thing about that Vietnam War that they are now saying about Iraq. If we leave there will be total chaos, the enemy will take over that area of the world and we will just have to go back and fight them again, but it will be worse the next time. So, of course, here we go again. How many billions of dollars, millions of lives and decades of lies must we go through?

It would have been nice if people would have stood up and asked: Why? Why should we invade Iraq? especially when many Americans questioned the validity of the so-called Colin Powell “evidence.” When most of the world said no. When the U.N. said no. The fact is that ALL America is responsible for this war. It’s our tax dollars that are going to fund the most un-American war since Vietnam. I’m finished with the bullshit. Lie to me once, lie to me twice, lie to me never gain.

That’s funny, just a couple of weeks ago that same writer was advising everybody to get ready for a partition of Iraq into three autonomous regions to avoid a full-scale civil war. Guess he got a call from Bush to change his story.

The pro-war side has lied from the start. Why should we think they will stop now?

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