Comments on: Lugar: Change In Iraq Policy Can't Wait

Republican Senator Says Bush's Surge Can't Achieve Its Goals

[bluestardad]

is this forum up?

[huskerarmy]

They want us to stay there, if we leave the war is over for them.
Posted by sjc_1 at

And just imagine the hit their recruiting effort would take...

[huskerarmy]

"...a month ago he voted against a withdrawal timeline and voted for funding the war for the rest of the year."
Posted by downtowner97

Now that many of the GOPers are starting to talk the talk, it's time for them to put thier votes where their mouth is... How many more kids must die while the right continues on its slow grind to reality?

[sjc_1]

Ironically, a time table and redeployment is not what Al Qaeda wants. They want us to stay there and get mired down so they can keep killing us and bleed us dry.

If we leave, Al Qaeda has no reason to be there. Remember, Al Qaeda was created after we kept troops in Saudi Arabia LONG after the end of Gulf war. like Bin Laden predicted to the Saudis.

Al Qaeda was created out of foreign Arab fighters that fought the invading and occupying armies of the Soviets in Afghanistan. They want us to stay there, if we leave the war is over for them.

[getit1776]

Here he goes again: demoralizing our troops, giving comfort to the enemy, aiding the terrorists, cutting and running...oh, he's a republican...never mind.

Maybe we shouldn't be too hard on old Lugar; he never was the sharpest tool in the shed and he's at long last come around to have a snort of reality. It would be a little easier to take if he could at least admit his past mistakes. Naah, who am I kidding?

[micma-2009]

Crazy cut-n-run Republicans.

[tdap2]

The Bush/Cheney Mission To Plunder The American Family & Enrich Big Oil Companies & Giant Defense Contractors is Accomplished!
Christian Coalition Troops Occupying Sacred Muslim Land is Destabilizing The Middle East & Causing Big Oil & ExxonMobil & Big Defense Contractors & Halliburton To Earn Massive Profit!

%u2022 American People in the last election spoke loud and clear & demand OUT OF IRAQ! The American People WERE BETRAYED BY PELOSI & REED! DO NOT BETRAY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AGAIN!
%u2022 Bush/Cheney policies have created a holocaust event in the middle east, wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on military spending, destabilized the Middle East which has raised the price of a barrel of oil to $70 and a gallon of gasoline to $3-$4 ! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
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%u2022 There are 463 Million Muslims in the Middle East. Most want Christian Coalition Troops off their land and many are willing to support Al-Qaeda with money or manpower to make it happen.

[firststate]

Our wanna-be king, george isn't likely to listen. There's no round table in his castle, there's no discussion. He's the decider and he's decided that he won't allow reality to interfere. He loved the king of the world line from Titanic so much that he didn't notice that the ship went down. To him, the war is going well even with more casualties. It's a small price to pay for a chance for him to resolve all his issues. There his "daddy" issue, he's already won his deadly pissing contest with Saddam and so now, if he can work out his ***-envy with Ahmadinejad, there may be hope. It's tragic that 3,580 of our brave men and women have had to die because he had to start a war instead of just getting a red convertible for his mid-life crisis. His 20 percenters must be starting to feel lonely, unless they are as delusional as he.

There is good news, though. All the previous men mentioned as "worse presidents" have moved a notch away from worst. He took the office to new lows. Unless another combination of a tricky-dicky the second, Rasputin-like vice president teams up with another slack-jawed, half-witted, trust fund, ex-cheerleader president, the title of the worst ever president should be safe. The supreme court won't have to hand him that title.

[downtowner97]

He's speaking out now, but a month ago he voted against a withdrawal timeline and voted for funding the war for the rest of the year. Way to stay on message!

[brianbwb-2009]

The "war" was a sham to begin with, the reasons have all proven to be lies. Knowing this, my question is what did Bush and his supporters mean by "victory" in the first place?

If it was the acceptance by Iraq of a puppet US-friendly government after bombing, kidnapping, torturing, and killing more and more Iraqis, The idea of "victory" was already impossible.

Mr. Luger is at least in the correct direction, but still falls short of reality, Bush lied, congress fell for it, so the US made the biggest mistake since Vietnam, war under false pretense.

Mr. Luger, its time to correct the mistake at the root, not continuing to disguise it. There is no point in waiting for some imaginary deadline, stop the madness now!...