Never mind all of the school-yard fighting between Hillary and Barack at tonight’s Democratic debate in South Carolina — the only question and answer that I’ll take away from it is this one:
Q to Hillary: Given the military and political progress, are you looking to end the Iraq War, or to win it?
A: I’m looking to bring our troops home.
The easy answer here, and the only right answer is “Win it”. It was a softball question. But Hillary got it wrong.
Despite the fact that we are winning. Despite all of the undeniable progress that is being made in that country. Despite that, Hillary still wants to surrender and admit defeat. Rather than win.
And she wants to be our Commander in Chief?
How do you win another country’s civil war?
Civil war? Phffffffffft!
Hillary doesn’t understand what victory in war is, nor does B-HO.
Preston — we’re not at war with Iraq. We’re in Iraq killing al Qaieda terrorists and those who fight with them.
Along the way, we’re also moving towards helping to build a government and military that can sustain and further the military gains our military made.
Not only is that the definition of winning, and not only is it “doable”, but we’re well on our way.
Yes we are well underway in ridding Iraq of AQ, and here’s a good post on that topic.
Preston — we’re not at war with Iraq. We’re in Iraq killing al Qaieda terrorists and those who fight with them.
And our strategy to do this has been to arm Sunni tribes who are opposed to the Shia-led government that we’re also arming.
Care to wager how this turns out?
So therefore, Preston, we should wave the white flag??
Considering who the thread is about, Rev. Billy C. Wirtz has female problems, too.
are you suggesting that we don’t aid the iraqis in providing a strong national defense for themselves? perhaps you’re advocating arming one ethnic group but not the other.
what’s your solution besides “bring our troops home”? do you honestly think that president bush doesn’t want to bring troops home too? one is pandering and one is being realistic.
are you suggesting that we don’t aid the iraqis in providing a strong national defense for themselves?
That’s not what we’re doing. We are indeed supporting the national government but we are also arming their rivals. I understand the desire to squeeze out al Qaeda but we are risking repeating the mistakes of Afghanistan.
We want to get rid of al Qaeda-yet it looks like the Iraqis only tolerated them because they were active in opposition to the US occupation. It’s arguable that Iraqis would have rooted al Qaeda out even earlier if they hadn’t shared an enemy in the US.