"experiment of Iraq"

[trancepriest]

I hate when people use that term "experiment of Iraq". Over 1000 American dead and thousands of Iraqis killed... and their talking about an experiment. We can't conduct experiments with peoples lives... only committed missions. Whats going on in Iraq is terrible... seeing Marines fighting for Fallujah only to hand over their victories paid for with blood to an Iraqi brigade (that is now disbanded). Thats a shame... if we're going to win in Iraq we need more commitment... send in more troops and lets exercise our will. This will be a generational commitment... not an experiment. After all this effort and lives... Iraq must be democratic.

I hate this game played by the upper class and professional middle class... on the working class and poor of our country. We're pulling the same Vietnam type politics in Iraq... our forces are being reigned in and letting the enemy go because of stateside politics. We need more troops in Iraq... the situations is getting worse... the country is not even anywhere close to being stable (unless u consider almost daily bombings on police stations stable)... the only way to solve that is to step up the mission or to pull out. Will Bush send more troops into Iraq before the election?... hell no... he's saying everythings alright. And to make it worse.. he's a Vietnam era stateside playboy... to him it's just an experiment. Saddam is gone... there's no WMD's...we say we're over there to promote democracy now... but the people don't want democracy... if we pull out now... civil war... what do we do with a people that don't want democracy? We shove it down their throats. That type of shoving takes a generation.

If this nation can't make commitments then we should not engage in war fighting. Instead of war fighting it would be better off if we blasted MTV at our enemies... and showed them how to be more hedonistic like us. Air drop some Guccis, Pradas, fresh sushi, Starbucks hot coffee and macs (i'm really going off now). In 15 years we'll see Queens/metro-sexuals popping out of the wood work... "o' my god child its such a drag being in Iraq." We'll know when our mission is accomplished by when Iraqis start making their very own.. "sex in baghdad"... and talking about in a Saleenesque manner... mixes they play at the gym... and recent gambling trips to Najaf... by then the world will know... "what happens in Najaf... stays in Najaf."

McCain: Bush not straight enough on Iraq:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/...ors/index.html

--- Trancepriest... signing off and going back to my pleasure cocoon now. Happy i'm living in a air-conditioned nation.... and watching, "The Wire".

[endymion]

Not unprecedented. The USSR was a 70-year "experiment" in so******m. Millions died for that one and the outcome was "hmm, nope, that didn't work...."

It's pretty funny/sad to see Bush looking more and more like Baghdad Bob every day. "There are no American infidels in Baghdad! Never!!"

"The forces of good are defeating the forces of evil in Iraq!"

Ugh. Deceptive propaganda, religious fundamentalism, and simplistic warmongering all rolled up into one statement. Possibly one of Bush's finest bits of sound bite poetry yet.

A growing gap between leadership rhetoric and reality is one of the more obvious signs of a regime falling apart. Baghdad Bob, Hirohito telling Japan that they were winning the war, Hitler doing the same, Bush telling us that Iraq is not a quagmire...