Comments on: Congress Ignorant On Iraq

The New Republic: How Can Congress Run Iraq If It Doesn't Know A Thing About It?

[processor2]

A Democrat Congress running the Iraq war, would be like a Democrat Congress runnning the Vietnam war.

We all know how that mistake went.

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[processor2]

A Democrat Congress running the Iraq war, would be like a Democrat Congress runnning the Vietnam war.

We all know how that mistake went.

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[bluestardad]

REPUBLICAN SELL OUT AMERICA CROWD! GO LIVE IN THE MIDDLE EAST!

AIPAC, AEI, and PNAC are the Neocon Chicken Hawks who gladly sell American Lives for the Interest of Israel!

The American Enterprise Institute came up with this Surge Plan Not American Generals!

Contact Information Reuel Marc Gerecht

American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
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Here are Senators from Military states that support Everything Bush has done to keep our troops in this Civil War in Iraq! 101st Airborne in Kentucky and 82nd Airborne In North Carolina! Write them let them know they work for America not Israeli Government!

McConnell, Mitch- (R - KY)
361-A RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: mcconnell.senate.gov/contact_form.cfmn

Dole, Elizabeth- (R - NC)
555 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: dole.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Con
tactInformation.C...


Graham, Lindsey- (R - SC)
290 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: lgraham.senate.gov/index.cfm?mode=contac
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If you think Americas sacrifice is worth it contact your ELECTED OFFICIAL and tell them http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

Speakers email address: [e-mail]

[e-mail] Republican Party email!

[e-mail] Democratic Party email

[cofmanaaron]

Even if our senators don't know the situation quite as well as the on-the-ground commanders, at least they are not in a moronic state of denial like our blunderer-in-chief. The guy does not have a competant bone in his body, and the men he surrounds himself with are worse: Rummy, Brownie, Libby, Gonzalez, the list goes on. So what to do with Iraq? Does any rational person really think that these strategies Bush's men are trying are really going to work? We've been hearing the same song and dance for 4 years about how the media isn't reporting the good news and how we're just around the corner from victory, making progress. At the same time violence keeps increasing, and civil war exacerbates. Seems to me that Bush himself can't come to terms with his failure in Iraq so he forces himself to believe we're winning, rather than taking the lesser of two evils, withdrawing and propping up the government with security in small defensible areas and letting the barbarians out in the streets do what they want. They are the ones who harbor the fighters. Just keep the camps from sprouting and Al queda will be denied its training ground in Iraq. Face it, it's simply too costly to turn Iraq into little America, maybe impossible. Cut your losses, withdraw most of the troops. The rest are there to help the government in administration security and training.

[akrk33nnn]

singinrick

It isn't a "liberal" or "conservative" position to want to get the facts straight and win the war on terror. Al Qaeda is an ultra-ultra-conservative organization, so I wouldn't go around wearing "conservatism" like a badge. Petraeus hardly seems conservative to me. But he does look like a WINNER.

[akrk33nnn]

afmca

"The REAL TRUTH is al Qaeda was NOT in Iraq until Bush and Cheney saw an opportunity for enormous profits and Rove saw a way to get his village idiot elected for a second term."

This is fascinating information, but we're currently debating what to do in Iraq NOW, not four years ago. Unlike a computer game, we can't "restart" the war four years ago.

It no longer matters what happened 4 years ago. Except to Senators and Congressmen, who seem to be living in the past. Withdrawing from Iraq now would be worse than the original mistake of going in.

Put that in your meth pipe and smoke it!

[middleman8]

A story written under the name KAPLAN,We know what side he is pushing, right?

[joanpz]

Go to Reuters.com - Hashemi, SUNNI, told GW Bush on Sunday (Phone call) THAT HIS GROUP WAS PLANNING TO LEAVE MALIKI'S GOVERNMENT BECAUSE their Sunni group was being IGNORED.
Did GW Bush say anything about this today?
Al Sadr's 6 person left a couple weeks ago!
Where does this leave the U.S. SOLDIER & IRAQI CITIZENS?

[joanpz]

Boy, the AVERAGE SENIOR CITIZEN IN THE U.S. has had CLASSES OFFERED FOR ISLAM V CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM IS NO SMALL GROUP - and SMART PERSONS HAVE ATTENDED THESE CLASSES. Talking Islam we are talking 600,000,000(Millions) ISLAM FOLLOWERS WHEN THE WAR IN IRAQ STARTED - these ISLAM FOLLOWERS DO NOT GO TO WAR UNLESS IT IS TO REVENGE THEIR BROTHER - so, at that time...The Sunnis (Egypt, Jordan, Saddam's Iraq, etc) join forces with the Shiias (Iran, Maliki, Al Sadr, Pakistan,..)we ARE TALKING HUNDREDED OF MILLIONS!
and THEY FIGHT THE COMMON CAUSE to avenge their brothers...Most contributors to these COLUMNS seem to think this war IS AGAINST THE NEIGHBORHOOD BOYS - unfortunately, Our Commanders didn't wise up our soldiers & CHAOS ENSUED -
The US Volunteer Army tried, BUT THEY WEREN'T MISLED BY THEIR OFFICERS!

[fredgrad2000]

taddles - way to cover for Grandma; who we all know needs to stick to domestic policy - her knowledge of the world and foreign policy makes even George Bush's seem all-world!! She, and all the others who solely claim "Get our troops out of a civil war" are either ignorant or liars - that "civil war" didn't start on its own...it was a contrived strategy by Al Qaeda and helped by Iran through its proxies (Shiite Militias) to make Iraq ungovernable so as to prevent it from becoming a functioning democracy, knowing if they bloodied us a bit and kept us from a clear victory, the American public would quit and the American Left would defeat our military forces that they don't have a prayer against for them. Iran doesn't want us successful next door or a Shiite REAL democracy next door enticing its oppressed population!! And Al Qaeda needs us gone to get the safe havens in the heart of the middle east it wants. Both need us gone to increase their own influence in the region!! The war was a mistake, its been mismanaged, but at least know who you're actually fighting and what's at stake.