This article below is kind of a long read, but it is very good in describing how republicans are starting to sound like liberals when describing the war, it's successes and it's mistakes. Too many people today particularly in this country tend to think things like this war conform to some type of written script that has a neat opening and packaged finish that is all wrapped up by the end of the day for the evening news. The writer accurately desrcibes this syndrome and other misconceptions about this war in his article.
Mistakes George Bush Didn't Make in Iraq Written by Raymond Kraft It has become fashionable for Democrats and other Liberals to intone the relentless mantra, "George Bush has made too many mistakes in Iraq!" at every opportunity, without ever bothering to explain exactly what those mistakes were and why they were mistakes, as if it were a self-evident truism. I understand this: they are determined to define themselves as the Un-Bush, right or wrong. They would rather be wrong than admit that George Bush has ever done anything right.
Inexplicably, many Republicans and other Conservatives have fallen into the bad habit of intoning their own obsequious shibboleth in reply, "Yes, America has made lots of mistakes in Iraq, but . . . the war against Islamo-Fascism [or Islamic Nazism, which is more accurate] must be won anyway . . . unless the going gets too tough . . . and do we have a plan to win? . . . and what is our "exit strategy," and so forth. They are beginning to sound too much like Liberals Lite, praising the president with faint damnation.
The "mistakes" alleged are generally of three kinds:
1. All war is wrong, and we should never go to war under any circumstances. This is the Suicidal Liberal Democrat position, those to whom the myth and fiction of "peace" is more important than the defense of themselves, their familes, and their country, against their enemies.
2. This war is wrong, illegal, based on lies, and we never should have started it. We have no plan for victory, no exit strategy. We should have caught Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, declared victory, and brought the troops home. We should find a way to get out of Iraq as soon as possible, but without actually publishing a time-table for surrender to Al Qaeda, so long as we're outta there by next Christmas. This is the Congressional Democrat position among those who want to surrender their way to the next presidency.
3. We incompetently failed to predict the Insurgency, and now we have a Civil War on our hands, we should have sent in five times as many troops and cleaned out the hornet's nest in the first two months, and brought the troops home. We have no plan for victory, no exit strategy. This is terrible! Now what shall we do? We should stay the course, but can we? We can't let our soldiers' lives be given in vain! But is it really worth it? This is the hand-wringing unclear-on-the-concept weak-kneed Captain Queeg Republican position fearful of losing votes and seats in the House and Senate.
Now I'm going to jerk the choke-chain and pull us back to some sort of rational reality about this war.
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