So, the loss of thousands of American lives, and the wounding of thousands more is sufficient reason to bring the soldiers home? Good thing that wasn't the America of 1917. Nobody invaded America prior to WWI, but we lost tens of thousands of men, supporting countries that weren't all that friendly to us.
How about Korea? Gulf War I? We weren't invaded then, either. In fact, I can remember talking heads just prior to the Assault Phase into Kuwait, telling us that the Soviet T72 tank was going to spread death far and wide over our Abrams. That Soviet artillery and air-craft were going to cause body-bags by the thousands. Sound familiar?
I suppose that, because we won in Korea, WWI, WWI, and Gulf War I, that the deaths were somehow "better" than those in Iraq today?
We appear to have somehow forgotten that war isn't pleasant, and that people die. We lost more people in the sinking of one WWII aircraft carrier than we have in the entire Iraqi operation.
For that matter, we've had more people killed in our larger cities by criminals in ONE YEAR, than in all of the time we've been in Iraq. Should we pull out of the cities? What are we accomplishing there? They suck down ever-increasing amounts of money, for little or no results. Businesses are fleeing the war zone of the inner cities, and now, the same people who give us the barrios and ghettos are spreading into smaller cities, and recreating their life-style there.
Blame it on Bush? Why not, it's easier than accepting the responsibility for ourselves. Were the Borders any more secure before the Bush administration? Were illegal aliens somehow prevented from living on welfare prior to the Bush administration? Why were we in Bosnia and Serbia? Did they attack us? How about Somalia? The same politicians who want us out of Iraq think that we should be in the Sudan. For what? Are American soldiers somehow less vulnerable in a civil war that has lasted decades already? Did Bush reduce the size of the military? Then spread it out in "peacekeeping missions"? Did Bush declare a "Peace Dividend" reducing the number of active duty units in the military? Did Bush come up with the idea that the Reserve Units, and National Guard could be used in lieu of active-duty divisions?
There was a quote by Henry Kissinger earlier, that denigrates American Soldiers. Was he part of Bush's team?
Perhaps there's more to this than blaming one man. We cannot expect that everything that WE want, even though much of it is questionable to other Americans, will be accomplished by any one person. This is still a "democratic" Republic, with a Representative form of government. What we consider "constitutional" may or may not be representative of the majority of thought. Politics is the "art of compromise", not of black-and-white. Until such time as our "experts" here decide to involve themselves in the actual process of government, and not make scathing pronouncements from their Ivory Towers, nothing will happen.
If a person has "his" or "her" president, because the vote didn't go their way, I pity them. They've already cut themselves off from the participation in how our government functions. All that's left is the usual whining, accusing, and generally loathsome behavior of the anarchist.
