Yahoo! News – Bush Says U.S. Will Persevere in Iraq
“There are difficult days ahead and the way forward may sometimes appear chaotic,” he said. “The terrorists and Saddam loyalists would rather see many Iraqis die than have any live in freedom. But terrorists will not determine the future of Iraq.”
Unfortunately, the terrorists and Saddam loyalists aren’t the only threats to the success of a free Iraq — we also face partisans in the American political system and media establishment who’d rather keep the Iraqi people in chains than allow a Republican president to share their victory. We all know who they are – those who would rather obsess about Iraqi prisoners with panties on their heads than talk about the Iraqis whose heads and hands were amputated by Saddam’s torture goons, those who would assert equivalence between the Bush administration and the Saddam regime, those who still celebrate the defeat of the US and the Vietnamese people in the war that ended with a communist bloodbath that took 200,000 lives in less than a month, those who are so impressed by John Kerry’s war record they forgive his totally lackluster career in the Senate and his buddying up to the rapists of Chappaquiddick and Chappaqua.
I don’t think the American people are as vain and self-centered as these critics believe, but we’ll see in November.
Rapists? You mean like what Ronald Reagan did to Selene Walters?
Face it, the last thing the US wants is a “free” Iraq.
And we’re getting a quagmire instead.
Vietnam, like Iraq, was a strategic disaster- it seems now fed to us by Iran via Chalabi to get us bogged down in a conflict we didn’t need.
Yeah, Saddam was evil, but lots of countries have evil leaders. Including some we support to this day.
Simply because somebody’s evil is no reason to attempt to take them out- there must be care taken to actually make sure the people of the country benefit. Bush just doesn’t care about that. He needed a true popular leader in Iraq, and all he could come up with was a Chalabi.
The fact is, Bush still has no endgame.
If the last thing we wanted was a free Iraq, why didn’t we just follow Ted Kennedy’s counsel and leave Saddam in power?
Face it, the last thing the Left wants is freedom anywhere. Their admiration for Saddam, like their admiration for Stalin and for the PC speech codes on college campuses, stems from the desire to impose order on the often chaotic nature of human societies and human beings.
Sure, there’s chaos and disorder in Iraq right now and the trains don’t run on time. But democracy if often messy, and the proof will come when an elected government takes over Iraq from the CPA, the first real elections in Iraq in 30 years.