So serving in the national guard is not serving ones country. This will come as a shock to the gardsmen. Your hate of Mr. Bush is so blinding that you care not who you hurt with your insults as long as smmewhere on the target is Mr. Bush. He served and was honorably dischaarged. When I first read this I thought you were taliking about Mr. Clinton who evaded all servive and attacked our country by protesting outside our shores. But knowing you as the political hack you are that would be truthful and you don't like the truth.



According to you the will of the people and Majority rule is what you favor. The majority in Iraq say this is not a civil war according to the last two polls taken in that country. One with a sampling of 2000 and the other with a sampling of 5000. Why is it you can't accept the majority as you say we should do now that your side has control of the Congress?



This is a lie from a political hack that wants to blame the nation and its leader for the mistakes of the past leaders of our nation.

The war was because we were attacked for 30 years and did nothing about it until we had a president forced to take action. The enemy in Afghanistan fled to Iraq for safe haven causing us to go into that country as well. They are losing in both countries and only have support under the table in Iran and Syria because of our attack on Iraq instead of the open support that Saddam gave. Lesson learned.



This is another political lie from a political hack! If what you say is true then the war would not have ended so quickly (6 weeks) instead it would have dragged on or we would have lost in days for not having enough troops there. Just because we did not use strategy decades old that all enemy forces have studied does not mean that we did not follow doctrine. The plan worked but you refuse to admit it 4 years after the war ended.



I find this part of your argument fallacious as well. Here is how I got there. You said we did not follow military doctrine in the invasion of Iraq, yet in this case we followed the standard practice after we have won the war and it failed. In WWII we took the German government apart as we did in Iraq. The only guide we had for winning wars since the left has kept us from winning in Vietnam, Korea, and trying to do the same here in Iraq. As I said we took the government apart and put in people WE could trust just as we did in Iraq. Are you saying Gene, that it was ok for Mr. Truman to do it that way but not Mr. Bush? There is historical reference for doing it the way it was done so it was not some wild hair up his butt that made him do it that way.




You are unbelievably dishonest. No, we should not blame the war on Mr. Washington! We should blame the war on the one that started it. I know this is a radical idea but how about we blame the war on Al Qaeda and their declared war on the United States back when Mr. Clinton was in office. As I said I know it is a wild idea to blame it on the people that attacked us instead of blaming it on the people attacked. But I can use that to work for us it was Iraq’s fault we attacked them.

Paladin77

The way Bush served in the National Guard IS NOT SERVING ANYONE BUT BUSH!

Paladin77

You are a complete IDIOT. You simply do not know what you are talking about. It is good you were not an Officer. YOU CAN NOT THINK!

Paladin77 You are a complete IDIOT. You simply do not know what you are talking about. It is good you were not an Officer. YOU CAN NOT THINK!

And WE don't understand how "you" managed to become an officer. Because "you" can't think either!

It's the moronic attitude like yours, that will end up costing us ths war!

The way Bush served in the National Guard IS NOT SERVING ANYONE BUT BUSH!

If you refuse to respect Lt. Bush's National Guard service why should anyone respect your reserve service?  You can keep up the lie that he didn't serve all you want but all it says is that you don't respect military service at all.

You spit on the people serving in Iraq and pray for their defeat... What support is that?

I see the VA missed your Alzheimer's diagnosis, Colonel. We should have a Congressional hearing about that. The President's "lies" were the same ones told to us 10 years ago by another President, if I recall, along with a collection of swindlers and crooks and criminals holed up in a large building in NYC. So that doesn't cut the mustard, Colonel. I could give a flying leap about your opinion of our Commander-in-Chief, sir, but I do take offense at your complete lack of faith and trust in our troops, including some who just may have been trained under your guidance. What does that really say about you, sir? I do believe the violence is caused by control, however, it is for the control of American hearts and minds. I believe, Colonel, that you should request some sort of commission or reward from these "insurgents", as payment for services rendered. I've had my fill of defeatists, so called pragmatists. Apologists be damned. If we don't win this war, our way of life and that of posterity will never be the same. We will win this war Colonel, because we hate to lose. The old men on the Hill who sent these men and women to war are exactly that, old men, frail and weak of spine, hell bent on dividing this country and countermanding anything that would make us victorious. I, for one, sir, will not stand for it.

You will not demean the lives and sacrifices our men and women have endured, Colonel. It will not happen. If you want to spew your hatred of this administration, feel free. Do not politicize our military.

If you still believe it can't be done sir, then buy me a beer in Dubai, and we'll play a round a Tiger's course.

Go Navy!

It's the moronic attitude like yours, that will end up costing us this war! It is Bush that has cost this country this war! It was a mistake to invade Iraq and the tactics used compounded the first mistake. The result is what you see day after day!

Clinton or Bush 41 did not take this country into a Civil war! That took the idiot we have in office now!

Bush wasted the 3,200 dead and the 25,000 injured. Committing our military to a war that was NOT needed and that has made this country LESS safe is just about the WORST thing a President can do!

Idiot Colonel, if Bush 41 never had any intention to continue the push into Baghdad why was my unit in Southern Iraq with orders to establish Log Base Romeo to support just such a push? The fact is the coalition had EVERY intention to topple Hussein.

What stopped us? Diplomacy!

When Hussein showed interest in a ceasefire that's all the useless UN (and some of the coalition nations) would accept. Guess what, ceasefires only end up killing civilians and solve nothing. The ceasefire was signed, the coalition went home and Hussein was deemed the victor as far as the Arab world was concerned.

To me, any "diplomat" who is willing to push for a ceasefire should just admit that they would rather see children starved to death than stand up to a tyrant.

Actually col, it's the attitude that we should just up and leave and that there is no hope that will lose this war.  Keep repeating your talking points, Bush will surely not get elected again in '08.

ParaTed2K

Idiot Colonel, if Bush 41 never had any intention to continue the push into Baghdad why was my unit in Southern Iraq with orders to establish Log Base Romeo to support just such a push? The fact is the coalition had EVERY intention to topple Hussein.

What stopped us? Diplomacy!

YOU Idiot - Why did Bush 41 stop from invading Iraq? Because he was advised that to invade Iraq would most likely create instability in Iraq, would create hate for the U.S. in the Moslem World and would get our military bogged down in a Moslem Country. These are the SAME warnings that that Bush 43 was given by people like Baker, Powell and Armitage. The difference between Bush 41 and 43 is that 43 did not listen to these warnings ALL OF WHICH have proven CORRECT. The idiot is Bush 43 and anyone that supports him!!!!!

Yesterday an attempt to kill the U.N Secretary General and today to kill the Dept. Prime Minister of Iraq. ANYONE that believes we are moving forward to secure Iraq and end the Civil War that rages in that country is nuts. There is another article that says there is not enough safe drinking water in Iraq which is causing disease. The continued violence has prevented the production and distribution of something as essential as safe drinking water. This is a LOST cause and the sooner we leave the better!

It is time for the Iraqi’s to END the violence. WHEN WE LEAVE, this Civil War will continue and most likely escalate until one side or the other establishes both political and military control of Iraq or it is partitioned into two or three separate countries.

IslandDog

Keep repeating your talking points, Bush will surely not get elected again in '08. AND the Republicans will loose the White House and MORE of Congress!

Don't be so sure col.  Democrats still don't have an agenda and they are already starting to eat at each other.  I see you think you are a republican.

Island Dog

The GOP has a agenda that MOST Americans do not support!

I am a Republican that believes we MUST Balance the budget and repay the debt. I am a Republican that does not support Nation Building. I am a Republican that Believes we MUST keep our promises to the Baby Boomers!

Um, since you are so historically and militarily inept, I guess I'll have to educate you. The coalition DID invade Iraq. Troops from 18th Airborne Corps, 7th Corps and yes, even the French invaded Iraq. My unit (1st COSCOM) was given the task of establishing a Logistical base in Southern Iraq specifically for the purpose of supporting the Infantry, Artillery and Armored Divisions' push to take Baghdad.

Please expain to me this, if taking Baghdad was never part of the mission, why were we setting up support assets and missions for that very purpose?

ParaTed2k

Then WHY did we not invade Baghdad and depose Saddam under Bush 41? There may have been plan to remove Saddam; however the consequences prevented that from taking place. The SAME issues were present when GWB was planning his invasion but the difference is that GWB did not heed the advice of those that had the experience and every WARNING Bush 41 and 43 were given have come true after the Idiot we have in the White House disregarded that advice and invaded Iraq!