Posted by
jarhead on Friday, July 06, 2007 1:56:15 PM
Recently Richard Lugar lost his spine and gave in to left wing pressure to get out of Iraq. And now I understand that John Doolittle, a California Republican representative and my former rep, has indicated that we have to be out 'of the front lines' by year end. Really-year end. So we telegraph our quit date and hope the enemy is not too encouraged to 'stay the course'. My God.
There is a public sentiment that we do need to succeed in Iraq. While many are concerned about how the war is being conducted a majority of American's are not spineless, vote pursuing, self promoting wimps-they understand that we are at war, the last time we quit millions died (Viet Nam) and that this time quiting won't just mean millions die there-this war WILL follow us home. We know this from 9/11, the Fort Dix conspiracy and the Kennedy Air Port plot. We have not had a serious success by terrorists since 9/11 due in part to good luck, in part to effective monitoring systems (pourous southern border not withstanding) and in part because the enemy is occupied elsewhere.
The enemy is investing heavily in defeating us in Iraq for a reason. Beating us there will greatly influence all the fence sitters in the Islamic community to believe that if the worlds remaining super power can be beaten it's time to join the fray. It will also throw the entire region into chaos, destabalize the world oil driven economy and, of course, the terrorists will be on us and killing us as quickly as possible here in our schoolyards, malls and public places. They will finish what they started.
What the Lugars and the Doolittles of the Republican party need to do is what our President apparently does not understand the need to do and that is to tell the American people, repeatedly, why we need to be in Iraq, why we must succeed and why the sacrifices now are far smaller than if we pull back and have to return to do it right later. But apparently the Republican leadership is not really Repubilcan at all. Apparently they think that the 2006 election proved conclusively that being a Democrat is the way to go so they are going to be Democrats.
Jimmy Carter would be proud of these whiners and wienies but George Washington would surely throw them collectively accross the Potomac in disgust. Could you imagine these quiters at Valley Forge-we'd never have had nation. I am now registered independant after 40 years as a Republican for good reasons-the Immigration fiasco is one and now we have cut and run. Is it any wonder the party is not raising money? Bed rock Republican's like myself (formerly) will no longer support this kind of nonsense.