Reply #106: Unfortunately, he's probably right. [View All]

[MrSlayer]

The sad thing is that the idiots in this administration should have listened to Wes when he told them not to go into Iraq at all but they didn't. Now we're stuck in a position of having to try to fix this thing and unfortunately that means we have to have troops there. I know fully that they shouldn't be there and that the fact that they are there at all is because of heinous lies but that doesn't change the situation of today. Simply leaving isn't going to reverse those lies or circumstances. The problem with the administration is that they have tried to win with the complete absence of diplomatic and political solutions in addition to military action, they've tried to win with military action alone and that's on purpose because they don't want to win, they want chaos because it makes it easier for them to steal. With the right people shaping a plan that incorporates diplomacy and political savvy and with the military acting as referee instead of as aggressor there may yet be a way to come out of this with a peaceful solution for the Iraqis and save our ruined reputation. I don't believe this in any way resembles the White House plan. Do I like this war? No. Do I think that Wes Clark is right in looking at it in this realistic way? Yes. The fact is, the troops are not going to be coming home soon no matter who wants it. The Democrats aren't going to cut the funding or instantly pull the troops. It's just not going to happen. So if they are going to be there, and they are, should we just bumble about and let them die with the same direction-less plan that is doomed to fail or should we offer a different approach that may work and not let those who have died in the fiasco created by the Bush administration to have died in vein?

It's ugly but I choose the latter since our troops are going to be stuck there no matter what. That's just the way it is, that's reality. It's folly to believe the Democratic congress is going to step in and end this thing in an instant as much as we want that to be the case.