How Do You Win a War that is ALREADY LOST?

[berni_mccoy]

Back in May I posted an essay that the REPUKES HAVE ALREADY LOST THE WAR ON TERROR: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/berni_mccoy/16

Someone on the web picked this up and distributed it, for which I am grateful because now Americans are starting to recognize the repuke rhetoric about "winning" in Iraq.

THERE IS NO WAY TO WIN because the repukes have single handedly LOST IT.

That's what you need to say when someone asks you what the Democratic PLAN is to WIN THE WAR.

It's no longer about winning or losing or "cut and run". IT'S ABOUT CUTTING OUR LOSSES.

Anyone who says otherwise is SIMPLY INSANE. And that's what the repukes are: insane.

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1. "winning" in Iraq simply put? - Bush regime has controlled the oil flow...

[Jade Fox]

2. You don't.

Nothing is going to come to any good from our mis-adventure in Iraq. We're going to be paying for this idiotic tragedy in human misery for decades, just as we are still paying for Vietnam.

Sigh

[coalition_unwilling]

3. Good post. I would argue that we lost in Iraq the moment our

forces crossed the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border. If not the, then certainly when ground forces had to fight their way through "Sniper Alley" in Nasiriyah on the way to Baghdad. (Seymour Hersh, in the epilogue to "Chain of Command," interviews an Iraqi general in Jordan who claims Saddam had already planted the seeds of the insurgency before relinquishing ostensible power, reorganizing his military command structure into small cell-based organization. Sniper Alley thus gave us a fore-taste of what was to come.)