Please Help Me Understand
Gosh, Mr. Bush, I am a little confused here. On the one hand you have been saying that we have been making progress in Iraq and the recent troop surge has been going great. Then you are faced with a bill from congress that has a timeline for troop withdrawal, on the condition that you determine that progress is being made, and you are promising to veto it.
I don’t get it. Why do you want to prolong this war? We are tired of it, we want it to end, and most of us aren’t even directly fighting it. We are tired of hearing about our men and women getting killed because of your bungled war plans. Mr. Bush, end this war, admit your mistake, repent and be saved.
You said this new military spending bill, “…would say to the Iraqis, ‘Don’t do hard things necessary to achieve our objectives,’ and it would be discouraging for our troops.”
When you say “our objectives,” exactly who’s objectives are you talking about? Iraq’s? Yours? I think you are not listening to the Iraqi people, they want us out. They don’t care about your objectives.
Right now they are in the midst of a civil war, and we are only making it worse by prolonging it with our current occupation. Many folks I talk to agree that as soon as we pull out, the place is going to explode in a bloody power struggle, so let’s stop postponing the inevitable. Let’s stop getting our soldiers killed and wounded in someone else’s war.
Also, the discouraging thing for our troops is extending their tours and not providing them with adequate support in a war without end. I believe that if our troops are given a timeline for withdrawl, it would boost morale.
Another thing you said, “An artificial timetable of withdrawal would say to an enemy, ‘Just wait them out.’ ” That is precisely what we are doing with you, Mr. Bush.