Are we still there?
So President Fucktard had his State of the Union Speech last night. I didn’t watch or read it. It would just make my blood boil. All I can think about is that we are left with 2 more years of this fuck. And we’ll still be in Iraq.
What was it he said in the 2000 presidential debates?
MODERATOR: New question. How would you go about as president deciding when it was in the national interest to use U.S. force, generally?
BUSH: Well, if it’s in our vital national interest, and that means whether our territory is threatened or people could be harmed, whether or not the alliances are — our defense alliances are threatened, whether or not our friends in the Middle East are threatened. That would be a time to seriously consider the use of force. Secondly, whether or not the mission was clear. Whether or not it was a clear understanding as to what the mission would be. Thirdly, whether or not we were prepared and trained to win. Whether or not our forces were of high morale and high standing and well-equipped. And finally, whether or not there was an exit strategy. I would take the use of force very seriously. I would be guarded in my approach. I don’t think we can be all things to all people in the world. I think we’ve got to be very careful when we commit our troops. The vice president and I have a disagreement about the use of troops. He believes in nation building. I would be very careful about using our troops as nation builders. I believe the role of the military is to fight and win war and therefore prevent war from happening in the first place. So I would take my responsibility seriously.
(Bold italics mine)
Read it and weep. He’ll use it to fight a war, but when it comes time for peacekeeping missions, not so much. The fucktard can say all he wants, but everyone should’ve known that he would never have been serious about putting a nation back together again. And he did it twice.
He viewed peacekeeping as an inessential aspect of our military. We can blow it up real good, but someone else should clean the mess up. And that is why we’re here today. And will be there tomorrow and the next.
His exit strategy was always blow it up and leave. Why do you think he abandoned the Afghanistan front quickly? And why do you think he pushed quickly through to Baghdad? To get it over and done. “Mission Accomplished?” Yes, since his mission was to break stuff and leave.
That’s all you really needed to have read before the war — his anathema to securing the peace straight from the horse’s mouth. To believe that he would be able to create a stable, democratic state in the middle east is to believe a lie. This fucktard president has always been lying to us. Presidents have been impeached for those kind of shenanigans.
He goes on later in his rebuttal of VP Gore:
BUSH: (snip)… If we don’t have a clear vision of the military, if we don’t stop extending our troops all around the world and nation building missions, then we’re going to have a serious problem coming down the road, and I’m going to prevent that. I’m going to rebuild our military power. It’s one of the major priorities of my administration.
He’s destroyed it. Our military is spread thin and it’s hard to find the soldiers to carry on in Iraq. We are already in that serious problem. Why couldn’t he have listened to his own self?
We are a poorer nation for having him as our president.
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re: exit strategy
five words… WHERE THE GRASS IS GREENER.
major theme… INTEREST
motivation… WEALTH
downside… COLLATERAL DAMAGE
=o)
The worst part of this is the torn families that this war has left. Children without fathers and husbands without wives. I’m consulting at Walter Reed, and it kills me to see newly wounded soldiers chasing after their two-year olds in wheelchairs. The good I see in that is that at least they CAN chase them. Others aren’t so lucky.
Yeah. Two more years of this…..we just might not make it.
My prediction:
– “Major” terrorist attack by 2008 that scares the shit out of Americans again.
– The government pushes for more totalitarian rule and the citizens allow it because “we’re making freedom safer.”
– In this vein, the government begins issuing national ID cards, electronic chip implants and begins to control the movement of its’ people.
While we continue down this road to perdition under the guise of “Freedom” and “Homeland Security,” the only thing the government is protecting its’ people from are their freedoms.
Citizenry without the ability to choose is captivity and that’s where I believe we are heading.
hey! just noticed this now. 1st comment was from me and was entered as anon. whats up with that?! good thing my signature’s there. haha!
=o)
I think it happens when I switched over to the new blogger account.