Where are the experts?
Bush vetoed the bill, we all know. Moving on, what’s the truth of the matter?
For his part, Bush flew to Florida to meet with military commanders and said the Democratic proposal would turn Iraq into a “cauldron of chaos.”
They don’t clarify and they don’t state very well in the first place, but who’s credited with this quote. Bush? A General Perhaps? John Smith from Huntsville, AL? I’m going to assume it’s bush for now. What if he’s right? We may have gotten involved in this war for the wrong reasons based on lies and misinformation, but don’t we as human beings owe the Iraqis something? We destabilized a country and it doesn’t sit well with me to just leave them on their on. On the other hand of course, if we keep baby-sitting them, will they ever really grow up? (”They started it!” *BOOM*)
I’m not 100% comfortable with the staged pull-out. Bush makes a fair point with his comment of “you don’t tell the enemy when you plan to give up”. The whole idea of saying, “If you guys just terrorize a little longer and harder, we’ll just leave, and you can fend for yourselves” smacks of an awful idea.
I’m also very against Bush vetoing something that has such wide support. He’s just a couple steps away from proclaiming himself dictator (he’s already “The Decider”). Even if the American people are dumb, the way the system is designed, they’re supposed to be in control.
Bush also hasn’t come up with a workable plan for Iraq, so his vetoing a plausible idea, even if it isn’t 100% acceptable, really rubs me the wrong way. Just saying, “Nope, that won’t work.” without coming up with a better alternative is just being difficult. If waiting to see how things go doesn’t involve potentially thousands of lives I’m fine with taking the “wait and see” approach, but we don’t really have that luxury in this case.
Are there any experts on the issue that aren’t politically biased, that can come up with a solution that:
You know what. Good, fast, or cheap. Pick two. I’ll take a good and fast solution. I don’t care how much it costs. We can find more money, we can’t find more people (well, you know what I mean, once someone’s dead they’re dead, even if we can always reproduce).
Ok, here’s something funny instead.
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