31 May 2007
I’m so tired of the fear line that the Bush administration and others are pushing. It goes like this, Bush says “This is a war in which, if we were to leave before the job was done, the enemy would follow us here”. McCain says, “When we lost the Vietnam war, we came home, the enemy didn’t follow us home. These people want to follow us home”. Come on now, how many of you really believe this?
It was recently written, “US military, intelligence and diplomatic experts in Bush’s own adminstration say the violence in Iraq is primarily a struggle for power between Shiite and Sunni Muslim Iraqis seeking to dominate their society, not a crusade by radical Sunni jihadists bent on carrying the battle to the United States”. That quote makes a hell of a lot more sense to me. How about you?
If we leave, the blood spilled will be Iraqi, a sad fact, but not American troops fighting for a lost cause. Some are now talking about a Plan B which calls for a withdrawal out of Baghdad and other deadly urban areas. We would then station our forces at the borders of Iraq to make sure there were no invasions and also do what we could to try to control the civil war there. This is being called a policy of “containment.†I made this suggestion as a viable Plan B several times in my previous blogs. If things don’t look better in Baghdad by September I think that there will be a rush by Democrats for a complete withdrawal and Republicans pushing for containment…Joan Lough
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