Comments on: Guard Units Could Be Redeployed To Iraq

Pentagon To Alert Thousands In National Guard For Second Tours Of Duty In 2008

[elz523]

D/a/m/n you George Bush for getting our country in this mess and for the lives of our brave soldiers who are dying in this war.

[petesis]

Send em. They signed on the dotted line. And our freedoms are at stake. The Arab world is highly peofed at us and if we do not continue to fight them over there they will come over here where we will surely be like lambs to the slaughter. Amen in his holy name.

Oh save us George W.

[iceman_1960]

There is ZERO comparison between Iraq now, and Germany and Japan in the 1940s.

ZERO comparison.

No analogy at all. And it defames the memory of great men like Generals Eisenhower and Bradley to sneak Dubya into their company.

Dubya is contunuing the war to save face (his own.) That's his one and only objective in Iraq.

The American people know that.

The forces of Bush-aria are just spitting in the wind when they throw idiotic analogies out, to rescue a failed policy that is way beyond rescue.

[iceman_1960]

"If we pull out of Italy, we risk another Pearl Harbor" - Harry Truman.

[iceman_1960]

I remember it differently.

Japan bombs Pearl harbor. War ensues. American forces occupy Italy. Government handed over to Italian people.

Italian insurgents launch widespread attacks on American forces as part of a savage sectarian conflict between Sunni and Shiite Italians.

Five years later, with Rome sinking in anarchy, Truman steels the American people.

"There will be good days and bad days in Italy," he warns. "But I'm seeing many hopeful signs."

[sparky19642]

Why is it that most Americans have a short memory. In an attempt to refresh:

Japan bombs Pearl harbor. War ensues. American forces occupy Japan. Government handed over to Japanese people. American presence remains in country.

Same set of circumstances for Germany....

When we make a strategic decision to occupy a country...we in fact have adopted them. We can debate the right or wrong until we are blue in the face. Facts are facts. We occupied...We now have the responsibility to see this through and give the Iraqi people a CHANCE to grow strong, establish a system of goverment were all voices are heard...and gain the means to stand on their own in the international community. THEY deserve the right to grow and mature as a country. They are our COLLECTIVE responsibility until they reach a point where they can stand on their own two feet. We will have to have a military presence there until that happens. Unfortunately a free, democratic society in that part of the world is something neighboring countries and governments do not...and will not...support (Iran and Syria come immediately to mind). We as Americans need to steel ourselves for the task we face and embrace this unique opportunity.

[iceman_1960]

"Who is the Iraqi Syngman Rhee ?"

Good luck finding twenty Iraqi leaders put together that the late Syngman Rhee couldn't have overshadowed.

How many war supporters could even name the Iraq government leader with looking the name up ?

[cruzn66]

Why is it, that when people try to talk about the U.S. pulling out of Iraq, that some morons call it surrendering? I don't think that seeking a political solution requiring intelligence, rather than cowboy-up, bullheaded, macho military might, is a form of surrender. If that is the case, then we have surrendered in every conflict that we have been engaged in since WWII. And how is continued support of an Iraqi government which has shown no ability to stand on its on merits a form of victory? How can you surrender if its not even your country that you are defending? I'm still seeking proof that any Iraqis were involved in 9/11. The only thing we are losing in Iraq is American lives right now. And if you buy into the "they'll be fighting on the streets of America", then you obviously underestimate the true power of Americans to protect themselves. Do a better job of protecting our own borders and we won't have to worry about outside threats.

[walt1944-2009]

At the end of last year, King George promised 21,500 more troops and that's all. He has his 21,500 soldiers and now he is adding 12,000 more without asking anyone because HE is Commander In Chief! If I were Congress, when I got back from Easter recess, I'd be hopping mad at Bush for lying to Congress and the American people, and looking, not just at cutting off funding for the war IMMEDIATELY, but also going actively after not just Gonzalez, but Rove, Rice, and all the rest of the "Bushies" polluting the White House. Plus it would be time to start impeachment proceedings and line up some military muscle to back it up because I am sure he wouldn't go quietly. Congress would have 70% of the American people on their side and thirsting for George Bush's hide!

[iceman_1960]

"I dont like all this fighting. I was just telling Bruce that we should contact Sean Penn and put together a peace delegation to go to Iraq."

Penn went over to Iraq before the war, came back, and said there were no WMDs over there.

Dubya should have listened to him.

After all, he used to be married to Madonna. That's more than Bush can say.

[iceman_1960]

Any resemblance between Iraq and South Korea is purely coincidental.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but we have fewer than 40,000 troops in Korea. You never hear about them getting killed in suicide attacks by Korean insurgents.

Must be a completely different situation over there today.

[goldesprit]

Robert Gates will certainly share the administrations track record in predicting what will happen in war scenarios.

ZIP!

Robert Gates will pass. Kick him out.

This is another trial baloon to see if we will let this administration push the American people around and dictate that we will remain at war.

IMPEACH THIS PRESIDENT

badaxmofo wrote:

"Ice - I agree - but you know and I know, we'll have troops in Iraq for years to come a la South Korea. The difference now is, rather than relying on the Saudis and all their bull shi'ite, we have our own mofos stationed in Iraq."

Have you enlisted yet?

[iceman_1960]

Ice - I agree - but you know and I know, we'll have troops in Iraq for years to come a la South Korea. The difference now is, rather than relying on the Saudis and all their bull shi'ite, we have our own mofos stationed in Iraq.
Posted by badaxmofo at 08:59 PM : Apr 05, 2007

The difference is, in South Korea we have the ROKs, the South Korean Army, which is tough and dedicated. Analogies between Iraq and South Korea amount to trying to refight the last war. It won't work.

Who is the Iraqi Syngman Rhee ? There isn't a gigantic leader of free Iraq like that. Rhee, for all his shortcomings, was a decisive and brilliant leader of South Korea in the Korean War.

The ROKs fought very hard in the Korean War. They lost early battles to the North because they had no antitank weapons to use against tanks, and many of them tied explosives to themselves and threw their bodies at the tanks in a suicide attack.

And in Korea there is the DMZ, a definite geographic division between one side and the other. There is nothing at all like that in Iraq.

There aren't many Muslim extremists in Korea.

The Democrats are not going to allow an extended deployment of a large number of American troops in a situation of sectarian anarchy. That's a fact. The American people are with them on that.

The Iraqis will win this for democracy, if it's won at all. Don't hold your breath.

[goldesprit]

Robert Gates is simply queing up for a good job advising some company that sells tanks after hes done *** everybody.

[goldesprit]

Robert Gates will pass. Kick him out.

This is another trial baloon to see if we will let this administration push the American people around and dictate that we will remain at war.

IMPEACH THIS PRESIDENT--and nullify his plans to widen the war for his cronies monetary gain.

[harp1963]

http://www.post-gazette.com/robrogers/

[pussylib]

I dont like all this fighting. I was just telling Bruce that we should contact Sean Penn and put together a peace delegation to go to Iraq.

If we could just join hands as brothers and sisters we could end all this bad fighting.

We as Americans were asking for 911 with our high standard of living and the republicans refusal to back down to the terrorists.

Im so Ashamed of myself when i think of everything I have i can take a dump and use soft toilet paper as those In the Arab middle east use their hands I mean thats just not sanitary.

I think we should just surrender to the terrorists since we cant win. It would save money and save lives. Surely we can negotiate with the very reasonable peoples of the middle east?

We should send flowers not bombs.

[iceman_1960]

"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves."

Lyndon Baines Johnson

(He later went back on his word and was driven from office)

[iceman_1960]

Currently 330k trained ISF.
Posted by badaxmofo

That's more than enough.

Bring US troops home and let Iraqis fight for Iraqi Freedom.

That freedom won't endure in a Muslim land if a lot of Christian foreigners secure it.