Reasonable folks can have different opinions about whether the invasion of Iraq was the right thing to do in 2003. This is of interest only to historians.

Reasonable folks can have different opinions about whether the Iraqi military and police shou…

All good points. However, Bush has the power to change these ROE, he choses not too for political reasons. The Dems, REPS and media have all be responsible for the failure. there is enough blame to go around.

The attack on the constitution started with FDR and has continued pretty much non-stop since. Reagan offered a small speed bump along that path. Our constiution was written to rein in the power of government and make it a limited one. Yet our government gets larger every year. Something is broken and we need to fix it. (hint turning off the flow of money would be a good start)

It’s not so much that Bush is a failed president, which would after his illegal immigration fiasco been easy enough to admit, but the the leadership of the democratic party has totally invested itself in America’s defeat in order to regain control of America. Not only has the leadership of the democratic party done this but they have been aided and abetted by the media.

Members of the House, the Senate and the media have no business what so ever dictating or even suggesting the tactics or strategies employed to fight a war. Yet time and time again we have seen them tie the hands of our fighting forces with suicidal Rules Of Engagement tactics and strategies. To make matters worse we have seen various members of congress give aid and comfort to our enemies and been forced to witness our media commit treason.

Bush is the commander in chief and ultamitly the prosecution of this war is his responsibility, but there is no question that a number of individuals in congress are attempting to subvert him and the US constitution by reassigning to themselves authority that constitutionally is soley invested in the President of the United States of America.

Hard enough to make all Trutherism, p.c.-ism and self-loathing surrender-ism melt away.

Meanwhile, the leadership has frittered away a chance to destroy jihadism by fighting it like a “winning hearts and minds” and open-to-embedded-reporters campaign.

They do not appear to undersatdn what War means.

Or how you wage it to survive.

The problem is that America hasn’t “won” a war in a long long time. The reason for that is the concept of “limited warfare”, “nation building”, and “police actions”. The truth is that limited warfare does not work. You cannot rebuild a nation while the enemy is attacking you and the only way to stop the enemy from attacking you is to destroy him completely. That is the plan that worked from ancient times through Sherman’s March To The Sea and up through the victory over Germany and Japan in WWII.

After 1945 we forgot what we learned about war, what had worked so well. The concept of effective warfare died the day Truman fired MacArthur as Supreme Commander of our troops in Korea. We then adopted the limited warfare mindset while the USSR and China perfected the war by proxy option.

WE ARE AT WAR

OUR ENEMIES WILL ATTACK US TO GAIN VICTORY

WE SHOULD EXPECT THIS

WE SHOULD DEFEAT THE ENEMY SO OUR SOLDIERS CAN COME HOME

What part of this is too hard for our leaders to grasp?

BUSH is a FAILED president. He has had 6 years with the greatest armed force in the history of the world to pacify a region that lives in the dark ages and has been unable to do so. He is not a war president. He is Nero and he fiddles while Rome burns.

Update: I’m honestly not sure if this would hurt Bush or help him at this point. Maliki’s his guy but if a change at the top helps to move some of the benchmark legislation through parliament, it’s a big boost.

I know it’s up to the Iraqis, but I’m ready to see a change at the helm of Iraq. I’m fully willing to admit that Maliki isn’t the leader I hoped he’d be, and I think it’s time to move on.

tomas on July 7, 2007 at 5:29 PM

tomas, you are the Tancredo of Hot Air. You’re both single-issue guys obsessed with the border.

RightWinged on July 7, 2007 at 8:55 PM

What is this, a witch hunt? Sure, I should have thought my stuff out more clearly, but I do believe that, if someone should be shown to be a danger to the security of this country, that they should be thrown in jail for treason.

Just cause I don’t make you comfortable doesn’t mean that I am some stupid liberal troll.

congsan on July 7, 2007 at 7:45 PM

I’m not buying it, I believe you were being sarcastic and obnoxious. I may not be that familiar with you (I assume you’re new), but your idiotic comment screams of a liberal attempting to comment here as a conservative in order to make us look bad, especially considering your comments in two other posts I found were as extreme.

“The two Kurdish parties (PUK and KDP), the Dawa Party, and the SIIC agreed yesterday (Tuesday) to form a national political front that will be officially announced next week.”

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On the other hand, the Iraqi List continues to move forward with its own plans to form the political mass we mentioned in earlier posts. Al-Mashriq wrote on Wednesday:

“Sattar Bayir, member of parliament from Allawi’s party said, ‘The negotiations have gone decently so far to form the suggested Iraqi front. The movement is to form an Iraqi front from all national parties, organizations, associations and figures.’ And he added that there are ongoing negotiations with various parties including the Accord Front, the Dialogue Front and the Fadheela Party…”

http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/07/itm.php

Can someone sort all this out?

I don’t know why everyone thinks I’m being sarcastic. Why should we mind staying there for a few decades?

I thought you were being sarcastic. Maybe your latest post was a genuine clarification or you’ve moved onto super-ironic sarcasm I don’t know but this war is going to go on for decades either way so we might as well fight to win.

With all of Bush’s faults, he will go out swinging and let the military do what they need to do.

…at least I hope so.

congsan on July 7, 2007 at 4:54 PM

Finally someone that understands the problem….oh wait you were trying to be funny….well out of the mouths of babes….

You can saute it.

You can add more spice.

You can cook it for an hour or you can cook it for a hundred years.

But no matter what you do, this Iraqi nation building with Islamic Shiite and Islamic Sunni ingredients is still going to come out as $hit-on-a-shingle.

The quip about internment camps for Democrats was that: a quip.
congsan on July 7, 2007 at 7:45 PM

Try to bear in mind that Michelle is held responsible for all of our little “quips”. There are other websites where your thoughts about locking up democrats will be welcome. Here at Hot Air, not so much.

RightWinged on July 7, 2007 at 5:59 PM

I don’t know why everyone thinks I’m being sarcastic. Why should we mind staying there for a few decades? We have the resources to stay for the long haul. I think it’s fairly disingenuous to think that we can win this without a commitment of at least a couple of decades of at least low level violent involvement.

The quip about internment camps for Democrats was that: a quip. Though I do think that a group of people who are responsible for so many evil things should probably be locked up to protect them from doing any more damage. What’s so wrong with that?

RightWinged on July 7, 2007 at 5:59 PM
I thought the two were the same ?????? That is the MSM.