[Grovenet] "It's time we win the war on terror"

[allnutt]

A little tough love in Iraq could go a long way.
As long as we are there doing their security work for them they have no need 
to stand up.
And bush has said that as long as he is president we will stay there.
So the Iraqi leaders have 2 more years of a free ride and they know it.

Again bush has it backwards. How obvious is it that they won't stand up 
until we stand down?
Why is he making it easy for them to not stand up?

The people of Iraq want us out. But the leadership wants us to stay.
Cheaper for them and they get to blame us for anything that goes wrong.
Heck of a deal for them.
Not such a good deal for us.


Katie




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Canon" <canonmetals at yahoo.com>
To: "grovenet" <grovenet at rdrop.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 8:27 AM
Subject: [Grovenet] "It's time we win the war on terror"


> Quote from Sen. John McCain:
>
> "I think one of the biggest mistakes we made was
> underestimating the size of the task and the
> sacrifices that would be required," McCain said.
> "Stuff happens, mission accomplished, last
> throes, a few dead-enders. I'm just more familiar
> with those statements than anyone else because it
> grieves me so much that we had not told the
> American people how tough and difficult this task
> would be."
>
> There were many of us on this list who predicted
> that the Bush invasion of Iraq would be a
> disaster. It wasn't exactly rocket science, and
> we were not unique. We felt, and others felt, the
> appropriate response to terrorism was a police
> action coordinated with the rest of the world.
> After 9/11, our country had the support of the
> rest of the world, which increased the prospects
> that confronting terrorism would be successful.
>
> Bush had other ideas.
>
> John McCain supported the invasion. And, had we
> applied appropriate numbers and a winning
> strategy, we might have been able to pull it off.
> Had Bush been straight with the American people,
> and not focused so much on concealing his actions
> and pretending it was "some kind of day at the
> beach" (quoting McCain again), transforming Iraq
> into a free and responsible nation might have
> been achievable (I doubt it, but who's to say?).
> Again, Bush and his team had other ideas.
>
> Here is what McCain is saying now:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/klh8h
>
> And here is Harry Reid with another idea:
>
> Senate Democrats, meanwhile, said Tuesday that
> the best way to encourage Iraqis to get their
> political house in order is to begin a phased
> withdrawal from Iraq by the end of this year.
> Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, top Democrat on the
> Armed Services Committee, said the longer the
> U.S. stays the course in Iraq, "the weaker we're
> going to be in the war on terrorism."
>
> Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he was
> glad to hear McCain has realized "we need more
> than tough talk" on Iraq.
>
> "It's time we win the war on terror," said Reid.
> "To do that we must change the course in Iraq."
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