Losing in Iraq?

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Losing in Iraq?

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

As long as it suits them politically. The big lie going around the democratic party is that by electing a democratic president that they will bring the troops immediately home. It is one big reason the dems took over congress but low and behold nothing happened. The anti war folks think that a dem will fulfill this wish but they are just blinded to the reality that none of the candidates if elected want to cut and run and then deal with the genocide that takes place.

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

Did you see that one yahoo in the democratic controlled House actually had the idiot nerve to suggest that a "sur-tax" be created to fund the war in Iraq and Afghanistan so that the people would have to pay for it (uh, duh, what do you think we already do by paying our taxes... absolutely brilliant, ya jerk...). Actually, it was a punishment to the citizenry because the dems have not been successful in plowing their anti-Bush policies through and have found that the people really don't back them in their anti-war rhetoric.

fear of shiz · Profuse Pontificator

The Dems need to study the election 0f 1864

Antiwar sentiment ran high as bloody news arrived from the war zone day after day. The Democratic platform declared the war a "failure," demanding its end. It looked like a bad year for Republicans. A young Republican congressman, a veteran who had won fame on the battlefield, stumped across all-important Ohio. He did not like the incumbent Republican president. But there was no way he wanted a Democrat elected. "Why is the war a failure to them?" this congressman asked on the stump. "It is only a failure because if it succeeds they fail." Does that raw rhetoric sound familiar? The year was 1864. The congressman was James Garfield, who as a young colonel had led Union forces on a victorious campaign in Kentucky, winning promotion to general. The quote from Garfield's 1864 stump speech is reported in "Garfield," Allan Peskin's biography of the man who later became our 20th president. In the summer of 1864, Democrats banked on riding antiwar sentiment into the White House. But in September, Atlanta fell and political momentum shifted.