Topic: Foreign Policy
How Bush could win his Mesopotamian War A strategy for US success in our recent wars of aggression in the area of Mesopotamia.by Michael McDonnough
(Libertarian)
Thursday, November 22, 2007
I think President Bush should send his Commander in Chief to Iraq where he can use his superior mental powers of judgment to establish the proper course for the United States. He should stay and work with his top generals and their staff in Iraq where they can have a more direct view of the situation on the ground and can then report in real time about the success in Iraq. If the Commander in Chief is too busy perhaps he can station his VP in Iraq in his stead where he can give the daily briefings from Iraq to his busy Commander in Chief and the President can use this information to confirm if his policies in Iraq and Afghanistan are working.
I would also suggest as a method of constant feedback to the Commander in Chief that they have in his command center a large alphanumeric display on the wall, front and center showing a running tab for the Iraq and Afghan war cost as well as the body counts for Iraqi, Afghani, and US and allied sides as well as wounded figures and entitlement cost, long term health care cost for all involved in the conflict, and clean-up estimates tabulated constantly in front of them as they make their decisions.
How would this change the tenor and flow of the war? Would this not help our deciders to start to make decisions based on reality, or would they just keep mouthing rhetoric and making excuses for their constant failure to live up to their word as well as our expectations. We are told that we can't give a timetable because that would tell the enemy when we were going to fail is basically the logic I have heard from this administration.
Don't place a price tag on something that you sell with lies as it will never be accurate. The cost is always higher than it is estimated in both blood and treasure. The reasons for going were clearly distorted or flat lied about. The financial cost estimate is not even close to the reality of the expenditure.
In order for a Commander in Chief to win a widely unpopular war he needs to have his boots on the battlefield as much as possible during the war since he does not have the credit left available to continue to sell this failing and costly war to his people who ultimately pay the price with their blood and treasure not his.
Mr. President respectfully if you want to keep selling this war your Commander and Chief and ours needs to spend a lot more time on the front lines in order to sell it. We need to see our Commander and Chief in a command position in order to keep buying this. If you want to win in Iraq it is like Huckabee trying to win in Iowa he basically moved there.
The same can be said for the wars you have started. We need to see our Commander and Chief move there until the troops come home. Then when someone sends their son or daughter over there they are going to see their Commander and Chief is laying it on the line as well and America will win that war.
If not sir I think we flat out need a new foreign policy direction. I predict that any party in the future who tries again to sell a bag of crap like this to the US electorate again are going to be in for a huge electoral surprise. We have been burned once, twice, and now a third time. Potential Presidents need to wake up. This is one of the biggest reasons for the strength of the Ron Paul Revolution. It is about recognizing folly when we see it, and this interventionist foreign policy is well proven to be dangerous to our life, liberty, and property that is clear to us now.
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Published: Thursday, November 22, 2007
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Bush has already won the War. The War in Iraq was won the very day, the very moment in fact, that those two brave GIs pulled over that dusty rug near that hut, and found a scraggly gun-wielding Saddam Hussein hiding in that spider hole.
Capture and Subsequent Execution of Saddam Hussein = Glorious Victory for the United States of America
(Killing Zarcawi, and killing Saddam's two murderous thug sons was icing on the cake with a cherry on top!)
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