Subj : The War Has No Clothes
To   : Jazzman
From : Finnigann
Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 12:33 pm

-=> Jazzman wrote to Frank Reid <=-


 > So how can one take a position, at home in an armchair and watching like som

 Ja> You didn't really expect anything more did you ? Isn't it amazing that
 Ja> these are the same folks who claim to be fighting racism and defenders
 Ja> of the oppressed.  Why don't they see that it's the Iraqi people who
 Ja> are the oppressed and that the service members are the true freedom-
 Ja> fighters ?




Bush misreads recent history


	In a Sept. 21 speech insisting that the United States must "stay the course"
in Iraq, President Bush warned that an early military withdrawal from that
country would encourage al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. Weak U.S.
responses to challenges over the past quarter century have emboldened such
people, Bush argued. Among other examples, the president cited the decisions to
withdraw troops from Lebanon and Somalia after American forces suffered
casualties. 

	Hawkish pundits have made similar allegations for years. But it is a curious
line of argument with ominous implications. President Bush and his supporters
clearly assume that the United States should have stayed in both Lebanon and
Somalia. The mistake, in their opinion, was not the original decision to
intervene but to limit American losses and terminate the missions. 

	This is a classic case of learning the wrong lessons from history. 

	Even hawkish Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., who was a special assistant to
President Reagan in the 1980s, acknowledges that the decision to send troops
into Lebanon was perhaps the worst foreign policy mistake of Reagan's
presidency. The United States promptly found itself in the middle of a civil
war as a de facto ally of the Christian-dominated Lebanese government. American
troops became entangled in skirmishes with Muslim militias, and U.S.
battleships off the coast proceeded to shell Muslim villages. The disastrous
intervention culminated with an attack by a suicide car bomber against the
Marine barracks in Beirut that left 241 Marines dead. A few months later,
Reagan cut his losses and pulled out of Lebanon


Just another example of the idiot in charge.


http://www.thehour.com/288473757113300.bsp


He's the wrong person at the wrong time for the wrong job. Maybe dog cather
somewhere... in Canada. [Sorry Canada]



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