Don't Be Distracted

The main themes about Iraq are: the Democrats have no ideas and can only propose to cut and run; and the Republicans propose to stay the course, even if that means forever. Both parties flirt with some semblance of cut and run proposals after the Iraqi military and internal security forces are trained and ready to take over. And both are so desperate to get out of that terrible land that they’re ready to deem the Iraqis good to go in the very near future – like the day after the election.

The bottom line is that the parties are fully ready to cut and run with honor (whoa!) as quickly as possible. All they want in the interim is your vote to see who’s in charge.

Bush says we’re safer now than after 9/11. He’s right; we’ve got lots of new procedures, systems and people in place to watch over us. The Dems say we’re not as safe. They’re right; our misadventure in Iraq has spawned more terrorists than we’ve killed or captured and the Muslim world is filled with rage at our obvious efforts at hegemony.


For whom should we vote? The Democrats, of course. Either way after the election, the effort to extract our forces will look pretty much the same, but there has to be an accounting for the massive blunder that is Iraq.

Iraq is hamstringing our efforts against those who would destroy us. It is galvanizing our enemies. There was no good reason to attack Iraq. We have lost nearly 3,000 troops; we’re spending billions of dollars each week and will be obligated to pay about $2 trillion before we’re done with Baghdad. And more than 40,000 innocent Iraqis are dead.

I won’t bore you with domestic policies that are aimed against the vast majority of the people.

Those who made these horrible judgments and those in the Congress who voted to support them must be driven from office. Vote Democrat in ’06 and ’08.

Blog on!

Wild Bill