Song and Dance
On Veterans Day 2004, the casualty count was 1,124 killed; Bush declared; “They are making us proud. They are winning.”
In a speech made to an American Legion convention in June 2005, Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel said: “I think if we can hold things together for the next six months, then we've got a chance of coming out of this. Staying the course is not a policy. Just to hang on and hang on, that goes right back to Vietnam. We need to find a way out of this.”
With an election weeks away, Virginia Republican Senator John Warner the Armed Services Committee Chairman appears to be breaking ranks with the White House over Iraq. Warner's remarks came as the casualty count reached more than 2,740 killed and after the deaths of 24 of our troops in the past week.
Warner said: “I assure you, in a two or three months if this thing hasn't come to fruition, and if this level of violence is not under control, I think it's a responsibility of our government to determine a change of course. The U.S. strategy of standing down as Iraqi stand up, is failing.”
Warner makes the assumption that our withdrawal would simply turn the Iraqi oil fields into a treasury for the world terrorists movement. He questions whether Iraqi forces can ever do the job, but insists that we've got to give our military the time needed to succeed.
This is the same song and dance we’ve heard for several years. If the Iraqi government can’t stand up and the terrorists might gain control of the Iraqi oil fields, his only option appears to be the occupation of Iraq for decades. Perhaps, Republicans are ready to drop the charade of bringing democracy to Iraq and take full control of their government. The plan from the very beginning was not to bring freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people, but to enlist support from Americans that can’t accept that this war has always been a premeditated, avarice, imperialistic attempt to gain control of Iraqi oil.
Congressional Republicans are shrewd politicians, who are trying to cover their backside prior to the election, get re-elected and continue to be Bush’s rubberstamp.
In a speech made to an American Legion convention in June 2005, Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel said: “I think if we can hold things together for the next six months, then we've got a chance of coming out of this. Staying the course is not a policy. Just to hang on and hang on, that goes right back to Vietnam. We need to find a way out of this.”
With an election weeks away, Virginia Republican Senator John Warner the Armed Services Committee Chairman appears to be breaking ranks with the White House over Iraq. Warner's remarks came as the casualty count reached more than 2,740 killed and after the deaths of 24 of our troops in the past week.
Warner said: “I assure you, in a two or three months if this thing hasn't come to fruition, and if this level of violence is not under control, I think it's a responsibility of our government to determine a change of course. The U.S. strategy of standing down as Iraqi stand up, is failing.”
Warner makes the assumption that our withdrawal would simply turn the Iraqi oil fields into a treasury for the world terrorists movement. He questions whether Iraqi forces can ever do the job, but insists that we've got to give our military the time needed to succeed.
This is the same song and dance we’ve heard for several years. If the Iraqi government can’t stand up and the terrorists might gain control of the Iraqi oil fields, his only option appears to be the occupation of Iraq for decades. Perhaps, Republicans are ready to drop the charade of bringing democracy to Iraq and take full control of their government. The plan from the very beginning was not to bring freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people, but to enlist support from Americans that can’t accept that this war has always been a premeditated, avarice, imperialistic attempt to gain control of Iraqi oil.
Congressional Republicans are shrewd politicians, who are trying to cover their backside prior to the election, get re-elected and continue to be Bush’s rubberstamp.
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