Iraq Study Group
It’s been predicted that a chaotic Iraq could provide a still stronger base of operations for terrorists, who seek to act regionally or even globally. Some fear al Qaeda will portray any failure by the United States in Iraq as a significant victory that will be featured prominently as they recruit for their cause in the region and around the world.
Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin insists that this has already happened and that the Iraq Study Group overlooked how much the war in Iraq has drain our capacity to fight the global war on terror.
The Iraq Study Group was composed entirely of people who didn’t have the judgment to oppose the invasion of Iraq in the first place. Now, they don’t have the judgment to realize our continued occupation of Iraq isn’t the way to fight terrorism. The list of those, who testified before the study group contained no one who opposed the invasion in the first place, and virtually no one who’s been calling for a different strategy in the global approach to the war on terrorism. The commission was not composed of a truly representative group of Americans, because no one represents those voters, who believe it’s time for us to set a timetable to bring the troops out of Iraq.
The 79 recommendations were a classic Washington compromise that does nothing to disengage us from Iraq so that we can deal with the issues in Southeast Asia, Afghanistan, and Somalia, which are as important as what is happening in Iraq.
Our focus should be on getting troops out as quickly as possible, but there is nothing in the report that hastens that goal. The bottom line is that we must allocate our resources around the world in the battle against terrorism and this report keeps our resources in Iraq.
We’ve lost 42 young Americans so far this month. How many more years are we going to put up with our troops dying in a situation, which isn’t working?
Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin insists that this has already happened and that the Iraq Study Group overlooked how much the war in Iraq has drain our capacity to fight the global war on terror.
The Iraq Study Group was composed entirely of people who didn’t have the judgment to oppose the invasion of Iraq in the first place. Now, they don’t have the judgment to realize our continued occupation of Iraq isn’t the way to fight terrorism. The list of those, who testified before the study group contained no one who opposed the invasion in the first place, and virtually no one who’s been calling for a different strategy in the global approach to the war on terrorism. The commission was not composed of a truly representative group of Americans, because no one represents those voters, who believe it’s time for us to set a timetable to bring the troops out of Iraq.
The 79 recommendations were a classic Washington compromise that does nothing to disengage us from Iraq so that we can deal with the issues in Southeast Asia, Afghanistan, and Somalia, which are as important as what is happening in Iraq.
Our focus should be on getting troops out as quickly as possible, but there is nothing in the report that hastens that goal. The bottom line is that we must allocate our resources around the world in the battle against terrorism and this report keeps our resources in Iraq.
We’ve lost 42 young Americans so far this month. How many more years are we going to put up with our troops dying in a situation, which isn’t working?
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