a plan for victory" that involves overcoming a "common enemy" to Iraqis and Americans that must be defeated abroad so Americans will be safer here at home,
"The United States has no intention of determining the precise form of Iraq's new government. That choice belongs to the Iraqi people. Yet, we will ensure that one brutal dictator is not replaced by another. All Iraqis must have a voice in the new government, and all citizens must have their rights protected.
Rebuilding Iraq will require a sustained commitment from many nations, including our own: we will remain in Iraq as long as necessary, and not a day more."
-- President George W. Bush
February 26, 2003
You've got to be kidding.The Other One said:So the libroids will be happy little campers now, don'tcha think?
catocom said:Kerry spouted his usual crap right after that.
Sen. KERRY: “And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women.....
Sen. KERRY: What I'm saying today is that this administration hyped the evidence, exaggerated, took every opportunity to go down a course that they wanted to go down, and that they did not judiciously parse or share with the Congress doubts that their own intelligence agencies had which they saw and we did not, and that means they misled us and misled the nation.
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/face_120405.pdf
In other words...elect a Republican for the next President or you're a pinko anti-American terrorist supporter!Bush and other White House officials argue that political fighting at home not only sends a negative message to the U.S. troops fighting the war, but it also sends a message to the enemy that if they wait long enough, the United States may leave the job before it's done because of a disagreement on politics.
Sen. KERRY: ...American soldiers...terrorizing...
"They told stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country,"