Thursday, January 11, 2007
Iraq: Ramp up or get out?
President George W. Bush has announced plans to send more than 20,000 more troops to Iraq but many in Congress say that is the wrong strategy. According to the President, the U.S. needs to step up support for Iraq's struggling democratic government or the country will become a haven for terrorists. His critics, however, say Iraq won't begin to take responsibility for itself as long as the U.S. keeps sending more help. What do you think is the right thing to do both for the U.S. and for Iraq?
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When policemen are in trouble they call for back up. That is what is happening here..... A stark difference of opinion was expressed in today's Park Record by the mother of a soldier and the editorial. The media which can sometimes include the Park Record, will never report on what good the soldiers are doing in Iraq and the new democracy they are helping to build. I have heard on more than one occasion from soldiers who have been there, how much good is being done. You will never read about those things in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the Park Record. What those papers are reporting is not always accurate. They are shirking thier journalistic responsiblities and they hurt those who are there to serve and protect!
I have two questions for the editor, the cartoonist, and Teri Orr of the Park Record. Why do you folks only think free speech applies to those on the left and why do you folks hate America so much?
Blogger from 4:48, you forgot about Tom Clyde. Have you ever had someone who lives in Park City sound so blatantly unhappy as him?
Not only does he hate America. Sounds like he hates living in Park City as well.
Blogger from 4:48, you forgot about Tom Clyde. Have you ever had someone who lives in Park City sound so blatantly unhappy as him?
Not only does he hate America. Sounds like he hates living in Park City as well.
A hardy wlecome to the "Red Diaper Doper Babies" that are going to be in Park City for the next ten days. Here's hoping that you all will get your "I hate Bush Fix" while you are in town. Someone needs to tell Terri Orr that these folks put their pants on just like us regular folks do, and they are not to be worshiped. Never has a more shallow and transparent group of folks been gathered in one place at one time as these "intellectual ineffectuals."
If one wants to avoid them, just go skiing, go to restaurants that serve meat, and attend church services. Luckily they do not frequent those places. One thing is for sure, we do love the money they spend.
Iraq will take a long time -- as did Germany after WWII and the Balkans in the 1990s. It may or may not remain a single country (though it is in the US's geopolitical interest that it do so), but it must become a place where people are free to govern themselves and terrorists, thugs and hooligans(to use the old Soviet epithet) don't bother decent folks. To that end, we are now committed to help the Iraqis in their efforts to rebuild the country and get rid of the bad guys. To be committed is to be committed at any reasonable level, and the difference between 120,000 troops and 140,000 is neither a policy change nor even a major strategic adjustment; it is a tactical decision. If the commanders on the ground want a surge -- or back up as one blogger correctly calls it -- they should get what they want without Congressional whining.
20,000 troops is “too little, too late”. This was an idiotic and uncalled for war to begin with, and what our troops are now doing is “babysit” a religious war. It’s now time to save $8 billion a week and bring them all back!
When the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs testified to Congress in 2003 that it would take 400,000 troops to sustain peace in Iraq after deposing Saddam, he was quickly retired. Wolfowitz Cheney and Bush knew better than the nation's top military leader. At that point none of them had ever fired a weapon at anybody else or had one fired at them. Of course Cheney fixed that by shooting his hunting buddy. That sums up their combat experience. And it shows.
American troops are "can do" people. You can put them in a crappy situation and they will try to make it better every day they are there. But they don't get to choose the wars they fight.
I spoke with a friend the other day who has now been in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a LTC in the 101st. He said the fighting in Kosovo pretty much ended when the ethnic cleansing was done and that is what is happening in Iraq and there is nothing we can do to stop it.
Afghanistan which is getting limited resources could still be saved in his opinion. But the great Decider is looking to save his legacy in Iraq.
It would be much more interesting if the PR blogs were of "local" issues. Not that this is not an important issue! I just think issues in and around PC are more applicable to the "Park Record Blog"!
Well, apparently the mere 28% supporting our great leader, Yosemite Sam, is centralized within Park City. How very disappointing.
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