Iraq isn't just bad. It isn't just another Vietnam debacle. Good lord -- it's the worst thing ever!
"This war is a serious situation. It involves the worst foreign policy mistake in the history of this country," Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada, told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer."
I want to ask if Democratic rhetoric could get any more excessive, but I already kbow the answer.
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Well, that would be an argument for cutting off funding, wouldn't it? Congress has the power to do that, but it won't. They'd rather just posture with meaningless resolutions. You should tell those in Congress who share your view to put up or shut up.
I think not - knowing the lay of the political land, that's a 12 year-old argument, "make me", or "I double dog dare you". Cutting off the funding would have the potential of more deaths or injuries while the command-in-chief waffled or argued with the boys and girls who held the purse strings. We ARE THERE, let's not pretend it's as simple as not paying for them. Seems to me if that was a viable solution, Congress would only have to tell the President "we're going to stop funding at this level, now make whatever preparations you need to pull them out." You really think that would happen ?
I believe it was the not-Republican-enough John McCain who was quoted just this morning as saying that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as the worst Secretary of Defense ever. That would be an Olympian stretch even for a registered Democrat, especially considering Rumsfeld's historical competition.
In the last 12 years the Democrats have taken the ancient notion that if you tell a lie often enough people will start to believe it, and turned it into their party's strategy to a) survive politically and b) erode traditional American values that stand against liberal "reforms."
Now the fruit of that concept begins to bleed into our softer conservatives.
No wonder Newt Gingrich, without even running, comes in second in polls of Republicans for their favorite presidential candidate for '08.
I can't think of a single conservative front runner that wouldn't sell us out on a number of our core values, except maybe for former Speaker Gingrich (an eminently capable scholar of American history whose reputation Democrats soiled over a book-deal advance).
surely no one expects any moral leadership from the democratic party. this is the party that wants to kill their offspring and to run in the face of danger! I don't want Rudy or John but Huckabee or Brownsback,or Hunter,or Mitt,I could consider, Newt???