Cleaning Up Iraq
The military strike teams, working with Iraqi citizens, are cleaning up the remnants of al Qaeda in Iraq. This has been going on quietly behind the scene for months now. As the war winds down.
Of course, the anti-war people want us to leave now. Before the job is done. Just like they did, successfully, during the Vietnam War after we had broke the back of the NVA in the Tet offensive and they were suing for peace. The anti war movement managed to trick the US population into thinking we were losing the war when we were in fact winning. The politicians got scared and the Dems cut off war funding. Nixon had no choice but to pull out before we finished. The aftermath of that war resulted in a huge humanitarian crisis and genocide like the killing fields of Cambodia
The anti-war movement, along with the Democrats, tried to pull the same trick again with Iraq, by claiming the war was lost. They wanted us to leave in defeat, because that would make it look like the Republicans are huge failures. A win would have the opposite effect, and they could not allow that. But we got the surge (which McCain championed) and everything changed for the better. The Iraq war was probably mismanaged in the beginning. It probably could have ended a few years ago. But the problem with wars is, hindsight is 20/20. When you are in the middle of one there’s a lot of chaos to sort out. It’s hard to see clearly. Mistakes get made and mistakes in war are ugly things.
Mistakes got seized upon by the left and were used as “proof” the administration were incapable of winning. But the anti-war movement today is a pale shadow of its former self. People who lived through the ‘70s remember what happened, and the anti-war movement doesn’t have the respect it once had (which was not that much to begin with). They may be very effective with their internet campaigns and google bombing of propaganda, but the public isn’t buying it. That’s why the Dems have not been able to cut off war funding like they did with Vietnam,
We need to finish what we started so another disaster doesn’t strike in our wake. So far so good.
UPDATE: This video was made by a returning soldier and not an RNC paid for commercial. It relates to what I was saying above.
Watched that video the other night and linked it to an email I sent to friends.
If you don’t have a tear in your eye at the end of this, you are one cold hearted SOB.Posted by on 09/07 at 02:46 PM
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