Originally posted by: piasabird
Tax cuts have nothing to do with the Iraq War.
I would not have started the war to begin with, If I did I would have a declaration of War and all the power of a full declaration of war.
If I did have to go to war, I would have kept blowing up buildings till Iraq Surrendered. I do not believe in a nicer, gentler war. You go to war to make some other sob die for his country.
Al-Sadr and his country and everything in the Sunni Traiangle would be a giant parking lot.
I would have started by levelling Bagdad.
Every time an IED blows up I would drop a bomb on Iran.
Secure the borders.
Attack Iran every time they send people or supplies accross the border.
After Iran took the sailors their Navy would cease to exist.
Declare martial law and a curfew after sundown. Kill everything that moves after the sun goes down. Destroy every building used by a terrorist, including his house that his family lives in. Shoot anyone in the head on the spot if they disobeyed the troops in any way.
The USA does not have what it takes to defeat the terrorists in Iraq. It takes ruthlessness to defeat ruthlessness. There would be no such thing as murdering civilians. No trial for our troops.
Originally posted by: Phokus
I'm going to mark this post for Friday because it's going to take me a whole weekend to list all the ways bush has screwed up.
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Much shorter list of what has he done right?
Anything?
............ crickets
Originally posted by: Lemon law
I still waiting for the small list of things done right---surely some GWB&co. supporters can come with something--anything at all---oh well--- going once going twice---one last chance.
Originally posted by: Lemon law
To Piasabird---who says-- If I did have to go to war, I would have kept blowing up buildings till Iraq Surrendered. I do not believe in a nicer, gentler war. You go to war to make some other sob die for his country.
Al-Sadr and his country and everything in the Sunni Traiangle would be a giant parking lot.
I would have started by levelling Bagdad.
Every time an IED blows up I would drop a bomb on Iran.
Secure the borders.
Attack Iran every time they send people or supplies accross the border.
After Iran took the sailors their Navy would cease to exist.
Declare martial law and a curfew after sundown. Kill everything that moves after the sun goes down. Destroy every building used by a terrorist, including his house that his family lives in. Shoot anyone in the head on the spot if they disobeyed the troops in any way.
The USA does not have what it takes to defeat the terrorists in Iraq. It takes ruthlessness to defeat ruthlessness. There would be no such thing as murdering civilians. No trial for our troops.
Well Piasabird---you are now a self confessed international war criminal---please report to the Hague----while passing Washington DC---stop and take GWB&Cheney with you.
In short no nobel peace prize for you---but if you do that latter thing--you might be in the running.
What does the attack on Kano, by fanatical Muslims against the local, Muslim-staffed symbol of the Nigerian state run mostly of, by, and for Muslim northerners, have to do with Iraq?
Everything. For the American government is monomaniacally fixated on Iraq, and the Executive branch, in its hallucinatory throes, tells Congress that it will leave "when the Iraqis tell us we can leave" but not when Congress tells Bush that it, as a representative of the American people, wishes to "tell us [that is, the Bush administration] when we can leave."
For Iraq, which continues to drain every kind of tangible resource (men, money, war materiel) also drains the intangible resources: the morale of the military and those who might remain in but now wish out, or those who might join but now will not do so. There has been a decline in recruiting standards, and roughshod and shoddy treatment of the troops -- a cruelty born of a necessity that itself was unnecessary had the army been expanded intelligently beginning four years ago, at the very moment that the invasion of Iraq started.
The Administration also does not look outside Iraq, at the larger local examples of Jihad or growing militancy that all contribute to one worldwide effort to keep Islam on the aggressive march. The belief that Iraq can serve as flypaper or as a "honeypot" to which all the "bad guys" -- as American soldiers are reduced to calling them, in an exhibition of the politically-correct infantilism of language that has been imposed -- will accommodatingly flock, there to be mowed down by the Americans and their "loyal" "Iraqi" "allies," (each of those three words deserves its own doubting quotation marks), has been proven wrong in every detail.
Until the Tarbaby Iraq matter comes to an end, one cannot expect any useful measures being taken to halt, or reverse, the OPEC-financed, Muslim-migrant-supported worldwide Jihad, with the results we see, from southern Thailand yesterday, to northern Nigeria today, to London or Paris or New York tomorrow.
Bush had an idea. Now the idea has him. The evidence is in, but he refuses to see it. Obstinate in his shallow idealism, he remains trapped in Iraq, stuck to the Tarbaby. But why should the entire country remain trapped along with him?