Reply #25: While our military is on the ground there, [View All]

[hippywife]

we are nothing but an occupation force.

If you want cut and run, look for example at the latest tactic of the Bush administration. In their desperation to distance themselves from the quagmire in time for the election cycle, the Bush adminstration is calling for the Iraqi council to be fully operational with a working constitution within months.

Our Articles of Confederation were written 1781. When the delegates met to amend the articles in 1787, it took a complete re-write into what became our constitution which was set to take effect in 1789. It wasn't fully ratified by the states for years afterwards--1791. (It wasn't easy but it's going to look like a cakewalk compared to the democratization of Iraq.) Now that would match up to the initial time estimates the Bush administration was proposing before the American people started getting wise to their crap and the fact that we were losing troops daily after mission was declared accomplished.

What Dennis is proposing is not a cut and run tactic. The plan is to remove the thorn of the occupation from the side of the Iraqi's and replace it with the diplomatic, humanitarian, and peacekeeping functions of the U.N. Last I checked, even with all of Bush's bullshit and blustering, we are still members of the U.N. That would mean that we would still be heavily involved and responsible but not as an occupation force and not in sole possession of Iraq's oil industry and rebuilding contracts...as it should be.

Dennis is proposing the only true diplomatic course we can take. It gets our troops out of a situation they should never have been in and maintains support for rebuilding Iraq. I think it would be much lauded by the Iraqi's and the rest of the world.

And I think CMB rocks!! She is a beautiful and articulate lady that I would also be proud to call Madam President. ;)