Comments Posted By Richard Bottoms
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MUSINGS ON A LATE SPRING AFTERNOON
That’s such crap, Rick, please. Anyone on my side would have been thrilled if a viable democracy were to blossom in Iraq.
The difference is that we felt the chances were very slim, not good enough to warrant the invasion.
No one on the left is happy except for one thing: GWBushCo will be gone from office, along with his gang of geniuses.
Hear, Hear.
I am tired of crap such as the givens:
1. Democrats hate America and love defeat. Screw that. George Bush got every single thing he wanted for five years. The result, thousands are dead, many more thousands are injured and the mission he championed is failing. Top that with a broken military in every area from personnel to equipment the failure is massive. Hardly something we'd cheered for.
2. Reagan is what's missing from political life today. Sunny optimism, big ideas, bold moves, and morning in America. Well we see hundreds of Marines dead in Beruit, trading with our enimies, greed, and welfare qeen fantasies. I spent most of my military career loathing the man in charge while doing my duty. My fondest memory: "Was Martin Luther King a communist? We'll find out in about 35 years." ~ Ronald Reagan.
3. Democrats and Republicans are beref of ideas. Really? Well your ideas suck, like teaching the Earth is 6000 years old, and that brain dead vegetables dance. Sure you may be rational about evolution and not turning the United States into a theocratic mess, but that's not who is runnin your party. You have ten dwarves running for preident, three of whom belive evolutionis fantasy, nine who think torture is just dandy, and a twice divorced, mean spirited, adultrous bully who will say anything on abortion to get elected.
Yes we need all of that in these times of trouble.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 20.05.2007 @ 09:31
COMEY'S TALE RAISES STAKES FOR BUSH
There's nothing hysterical in saying the president may not break the law.
The left's often valid complaints about the excesses and illegalities of this administration are often dismissed by saying: I know they have a point but they are just so mean about it, I avoid conceeding their point just out of principle.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 17.05.2007 @ 11:44
The Democrats base a successful campaign on simply running on criticism of Country and opponents and have never, ever presented themselves as visionary or problem-solvers or leaders.
Twenty five years or so of the big noise machine in your ear and I guess you really do believe that.
It was fun to watch the bulging vein in Rudy's head as he savaged Mr. Paul for daring to point out our enemies have reasons for what they do and perhaps we should take that into consideration when formulating strategy.
While it is comforting to think of Bin Laden as pure evil, there is a reason there have been no major attacks since 9/11. Not sure what his stratgey is expected to achieve, but I do know he is executing one.
Hearing Colnel Kurtz describe the will it takes to hack of a child's arm because your sworn enemy innoculated it and to simply hear the evil and ignore the calculation is foolish.
Driving two planes into two of the largest symbols of capitalism is one of the boldest tactical moves in military history.
Countering such foes by making a larger offshore prison is worse than useless, it is crimially stupid.
Sending 150,000 men to a country that you know needs 500,000 men to begin to stabilize it is the worst example of weakness.
George Bush doesn't have the guts to declare total war and to ask serious sacrifice to fight these men. You know it, and I know it.
Cut our loses, rebuild our forces and get ready to do it again.
Soon.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 16.05.2007 @ 22:00
NEWT INCHES CLOSER TO THE PRECIPICE
Newt is recycled garbage, he is an excellent pundit but that’s it.
I can't quite tell if that is a compiment, or not.
None of the current group have a chance in Hades. Fred Thompson included, though he is great in the Hunt for Red October.
Now if Bloomberg were to drop a billion or so into the race, maybe, just maybe the Iraq debacle might be overcome.
Hell, he could offer every Iraqi in the country a million to chill out for a few years.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 15.05.2007 @ 14:31
With the will to win, the rest follows. We draft men. All we need. Remember wartime drafts? We have the resources.
Get this straight: The man without the will to call for a draft or do any other other hard things to win this war is named George W. Bush.
Maybe you've heard of him?
Rumor has it he's the president of the United States.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 13.05.2007 @ 15:37
Perhaps the ultimate question is if, as you say, this has been written in the stars and is unalterable, why bother at all? Why not just pack up and come home – as the left wants. The alternative is to have American troops standing by and allowing thousands – perhaps tens of thousands – of Iraqi Sunnis be slaughtered while millions are driven from their homes.
Unfortunately 35,000 troops aren't going to stop it, not with Maliki useless and the Iraqi congress heading out the door for two months vacation.
Hell 350,000 troops more troops might not stop the inevitable. But let's assume a real surge might do the trick. Problem is it ain't going to happen.
The time for it was three years ago. Short of that illusory full mobilization, what exactly can we do?
Let me be clear, I am not asking what should we do, because my recommendation from the start was go big if you are going (the Powell Doctrine).
What can we do now?
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 13.05.2007 @ 14:01
8. The parallel with Saigon is becoming all too real, with Congress hell bent on abandoning the Iraqi to their fate. Liberals, in their shallow analysis, ignore the fact that our abandonment meant over 2 million lives were lost in Nam, Laos, and Cambodia to the actions of their Communist masters. How many millions of deaths directly attributable to our withdrawal will they ignore in Iraq?
So let me get this straight, we don't have the 500,000 troops to send so that we can win, and staying with the troop levels we have will not get the job done, so facing that reality by developing a plan for redeployment is evidence of liberals being the bad guys?
If was our delusional commander in chief, president George Bush who has made every strategic decision that have placed us in the position.
Until the election of 2006 he got every single thing he wanted, every dollar, every piece of equipment, and every single soldier he asked for. In fact by 2006 he was tasking Navy & Air Force personnel to take up the slack on the ground.
George Bush lost this war and his party is going to get stomped but good in 2008 because of it.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 13.05.2007 @ 11:54
Rick Moran said else-thread:
For now however, our concentration should be on getting the troops redeployed with a minimum of casualties.Which, is the Democrats position on the war. The
Republicans are the ones craping their pants over the CINC's intention to keep grinding away until January 29, 2009.
Kondracke's plan B is no surprise as many have been saying for about four years the fate of the Iraqi's is secondary to what's good for the PNAC crowd.
Oh, and once again the evil Democrats are accused of wanting a debacle such as the Saigon bugout without any, you know, actual quotes.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 12.05.2007 @ 11:53
I agree that GW Bush as well as the Republicans are finished, however, winning the war is more important.
Slight problem. With the exception of the last couple of thousand troops dribbling in for the "surge!!!!!", every soldier the Army has is either in Iraq, on the way to Iraq, or about to rotate home.
There are no troops to send.
GW should have enlarged the Army starting in 2003. Four more years later I'm sure it's still all Bill Clinton's fault the cupboard is bare.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 14.05.2007 @ 18:17
BAGHDAD — The commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq said Friday that he did not have enough troops to deal with the escalating violence in Iraq's Diyala province, an unusually frank assertion for a top officer and a sign that American military officials might be starting to offer more candid and blunt assessments of the war.
George Bush is finished.
The GOP is headed towards minority status for perhaps a generation.
All it took were the misjudgements of a delusional, stubborn ideolouge abetted by a cadre of yes men & women.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 13.05.2007 @ 19:48
