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Originally Posted by gunnut
That maybe true. However those wars were started by democrats. This current war was started by a republican.
All wars the US was involved in over the last century were started by either the democrats or a Bush.  |
AMERICANS didn't start world war 2 or world war 1. The got involved well after the fact. Which republican was elected to end ww1 or ww2? perhaps the reasons the other wars had such sloppy endings is we had republican leadrship? Of course not. Woudl we of ever let China backed NK invade and conquer SK? Of course not. Should we have committed ourselves to Vietnam, Gulf 1 and gulf 2?
Should we of tried to fullfill our SEATO obligations? Should we of done nothing when a country we had agreed to come to the aid of was invaded and conquered? partisans love to blame Johnson and Kennedy for Vietnam but the truth is our Vietnam policy was a failure the moment we allowed them to enter SEATO under Eisenhower to the day we left.
Americans enter wars...the one in Iraq is no different most Americans in both parties initially supported it. Were we lied to...i think Bush was as honest with the Congress in 02 as Johnson was with the congress in 65
if the country wants to stay in Iraq for 100 or how many years it will stay. no one can make us leave but us. If the citizens of the country want to leave then we will leave. The government may resist the move but eventually if that is the will of the people that's want will happen. That's the great thing about America.
I think McCain may be in trouble because of the State parties. Some will run thinly veiled racial attacks on Obama because they will play to a portion of the base. The problem is in swing states they will work against McCain. He says it isn't me as long as he likes but he will be connected to them. Stuff like Wright said is evil but it isn't that much worse than what Falwell or Robertson have said and they got invited to the Whitehouse till the end. Trying to link Obama to stuff he didn't say is going to blow up outside of the south. The party ofwhite protestant bankers and Texas oil men isn't going to have a bright future in a brown country. Even Karl Rove saw that and tried to get the party to redirect in 06. regardless of what anyone thinks of him the man knows politics