Too much success going on in Iraq
August 22, 2007 · Print This Article
Let’s see we have reduced violence, we have Iraqi’s making real progress on security in their country, and the troop surge is working. This is all good news for the Iraqi’s, its good news for the President, its good news for the region as a whole. So what’s the downside you may ask? Well if all that is good news then that’s bad news for Democrats, more importantly its bad news for the antiwar democrats running for President. So with all the success in Iraq it stands to reason that Democrats have to find some way to make a negative out of all this positive news. Enter the wannabe HRH Hillary Clinton and the report by the AP (via FoxNews) that continues to show why we can’t trust Democrats with the security of our country, or the security of Iraq for that matter.
Hillary believes that the Iraqi parliament should replace Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki with a “less divisive and more unifying figure”. The same could definitely be said of the people of New York as their choice for Senator, the same could be said for the Democratic Party about their presumptive nominee for President. Why would we expect the Democratic Party to listen to the people of this country, there obviously too busy telling the rest of the world how to run their countries. I never knew it was possible to be so arrogant and ignorant at the same time but then Clinton Machine rises to new lows with each passing day.
I respect your opinion completely, however, why should America be in Iraq in the first place? It is not really up to America to tell the rest of the world how to run their country and that is the reason that the Bush administration sent troops there. There was no connection between Iraq and the events on 9/11 and is it just a coincidence that there is evidence that the Bush administration had been discussing changes to Iraq before the attacks in 2001? Paul O’neill, former Treasury Secretary for President Bush, states that just ten days after Bush was brought into office and 8 months prior to September 11th, getting rid of Hussein was a priority. Bush just used the attacks on the U.S. to persuade the American people that invading Iraq was the answer.
You say that the Democrats are “too busy telling the rest of the world how to run their countries,” but I believe it was the Republicans who sent Americans into Iraq to tell them how to do things the ‘right way.’
Hi Erica,
America is in Iraq because most of us believe that it is better to fight terrorists abroad than have them crash airplanes into buildings here at home. Now contrary to the garbage you hear at moveon.org we have a vital national interest in Iraq, Freedom.
We don’t tell the rest of the world how to run their countries other than we promote freedom. It is our desire to have all the nations of the world free from tyranny and oppression. This is what the left doesn’t understand. When nations are free they don’t attack other nations. All the peacenik crowd love to talk about peace but so long as they continue to defend dictators be they Saddam, Hugo, Hitler, Stalin, etc they will never see peace. Peace can only be achieved through the strength of free people fighting for the freedom of people who are not free.
No one has said that Iraq was behind the attacks on 9/11. Iraq was not about vengeance for 9/11 it was about removing regimes that support terrorism and that is what Iraq was prior to the war.
And for the record it had been the policy of the United States government to pursue regime change in Iraq as far back as 1996 when Clinton was President.
Don’t you think it takes balls for Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to criticize the Iraqi Parliament for not getting enough done and taking vacation when they have accomplished nothing in congress?
Republicans didn’t send troops to Iraq to tell them how to do things the right way. Republicans sent troops to Iraq to remove a brutal dictator and cleared the way for the Iraqi people to choose their own government.
Try as you might Erica, neither you nor the rest of the left will be able to rewrite the history of the Iraq.