Comments on: House Opens Iraq Debate

Vote Expected By Friday On Resolution Criticizing Bush Plan To Send More Troops

[bluestardad]

It is ok to disagree with a president who is friends of Saudi Arabia and gives them special treatment on the world stage, it is also ok to disagree with Israeli promoters like Joe Liberman and William Kristol who would gladly sell thousands of American soldiers lives to promote Israeli interest! American military is made to protect American interest not the interest of other countries!

[bluestardad]

We must impeach Bush he is killing our country and if he starts a war with Iraq instead of diplomacy he should be beaten from office in discrace!

[clemenhagen1]

If you had asked Osama bin Laden for his best case scenario on the eve of 9-11, he would have drawn up a plan that President Bush has executed to perfection. Bumble into an ill-fated occupation of a sovereign Middle East country. Fan the flames of religious fanaticism on both the Christian and Islamic sides: a modern day crusade to borrow Bush's own ill-advised phrase. Our continued occupation of Iraq provides the ultimate victory for the terrorists. We provide them a perfect recruiting tool, not to mention handy target practice. We need to do the sensible and realistic thing: remove our troops to a centralized base (perhaps Kurd territory) and out of the middle of a civil war zone. We then need to employ thoughtful diplomatic and economic measures, as opposed to rash military operations. Bush and his crowd speak of victory, victory; to continue down the Bush path ensures only defeat. And an expensive one at that.

[bluestardad]

ObservantX; could not agree more thank you for the post!

[observantx]

Instead of killing Bin Laden, little Georgie and his Uncle Darth, went and kicked a hornets nest in Iraq unleashing a religious war between the Sunni and Shia sects of Islam. They did this because they had absolute power. How did they get that power? Simple. Our rubberstamp Congress gave it to them by giving them authority to wage war whenever they felt like it with the Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq.

How did that happen? Simple. They were stampeded by the neocon spin machine that peppered the media and Congress with falsehoods and manufactured intelligence about how Saddam had nukes and was responsible for the attack on 9/11. Season this toxic stew with questions about any critic%u2019s patriotism and devotion to Mom and apple pie. Add the festering side dish of the misnamed Patriot Act and we have the deplorable feast on the table before us.

Now we have our limp Congress blovating about this misdirected fiasco. This is blatant asscovering. The Republican controlled Koolaid Kongress was hypnotized by the Rovettes and now we have thousands of troops dead and thousands more maimed.

It is time to stop this kindergarten finger pointing and clean up this mess. Impeach the criminals that did this. Either pull out the troops or initiate the draft to go in with the Powell Doctrine and totally squash any militia or insurgent that so much as farts.

[scott4261]

Two things that come to mind with this so-called "war on terror":

1) Iraq had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with 9/11.

2) 15 of the 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia.

On #2: the last time I checked, the U.S. is still cozy with the Saudis. And why is that? Could it be that the Bush family has close ties to the bin Ladens and the Saudi royals? Could it be that they will help the U.S. take a larger share of the worlds oil?

Could it????

Wingnuts, enjoy your Kool-Aid.

[bluestardad]

mbcsmith; LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU TALK TO HALF A WOMAN BUT CAN DO NOTHING FOR HER, THEN COME BACK AND TELL ME WHAT WAR IS LIKE!

[bluestardad]

mbcsmith; No not french but my closeness to war makes me hate it!

[grumpas]

I would love to see Bush impeached and made to answer for his crimes against the American people and the world! He deserves nothing less than a jail cell! But, it's a sad fact of life! If he were impeached who would take over????? Cheney???? He is as bad if not worse than Bush! In fact, nothing short of cleaning house of the whole sorry Administration would work! That's never going to happen! So, I can see where Democrat's are not putting impeachment on the table! It's not realistic! It's due to our own stupidity (the American people) we are in this mess today! The American people had the perfect opportunity in 04 to get rid of Bush! But instead they put the sorry B...... right back into office! So, really we are ultimately the ones responsible for the looming disaster! I have doubts it will be one before he gets out of office!

[terrapin78]

IMO- the Iraq war, which I personally was against from first mention, as I grew up watching Vietnam.
Actually went OK at first, them Rummy said of the looting "That's what free people do" and the US never had control again. Iraq was a gross mis-use of our forces which has weakened the US.

Saddam was a master at deterrence. He made everyone think he still had Chem weapons but didn't. No one really wanted to mess with him. But Dumbya, doesn't understand deterrence. He lays down his hand (commits our troops to a conflict that is a lose-lose proposition) and says "Bring 'em on".

I used to think Daddy Bush made a mistake by not going into Iraq in '92, but I have changed my opinion. He was way smarter than his son.



So, now the Bush clan has lost al-Sadr.

Go figure.