The War on War

If there is one topic I have had enough of, it's the war in Iraq and the subsequent war on the war raging in congress. It makes me want to wrap myself in stories of K-Fed and Britney’s custody battle. Of course, it’s one topic that just can’t be avoided so to follow my blogmates’ suit my first post will also be about Iraq.

It has been pretty well established that the war was a mistake and the Bush Administration cherry-picked the intelligence to bolster support for the war. That is why support for the war was so high during the initial invasion. The reason why public support has dropped so dramatically is because Americans now realize the war was a mistake. Of course now the line is that it is essential to the war on terror. Fight them there so we don’t have to fight them here. I wonder which sect will come over here to fight us the Sunnis or the Shiites?

How anyone can argue that the war in Iraq is essential part of the war on terror is beyond me. The war in Iraq has been a major distraction from the war on terror. That is why according the State Department terrorist attacks have been steadily increasing with a sharp rise last year. We still haven’t caught Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban is back and still fighting in Afghanistan. The war has also weakened our military strength as General George Casey told Congress last week.

Why shouldn’t we set a timetable for pulling out of Iraq? We set timelines for the Iraqis to form a government, form a constitution and to hold elections. By not setting timetables there is not impetuous for a political solution or for the Iraqis to get their military trained. That doesn’t mean pulling out of the region just out of Iraq we can redeploy the troops to other countries in the region as Congressman John Murtha has been calling for the last two years. No one is calling for surrender, besides, we won the war in Iraq a long time ago remember?