Contrary to what the President has told us in recent months, the surge in Iraq is not working. It’s true that fewer people are dying compared to the mass casualties of previous years, and that Al Qaeda in Iraq is “on the run.” But the simple fact is that people are still dying, American soldiers are still dying, and that political stability for the country (the entire justification for the surge) has not even been accomplished.
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A Surge of Failure
By Daniel Solis in Foreign Affairs, George W. Bush, War, War in Iraq on March 9, 2008Is there a way to end the war…
By Daniel Solis in War in Iraq on July 25, 2007and stay completely out of Iraq?
Today the house voted to ban any permanent bases in Iraq. But the war still drags on.
Forget about political parties and politicians. Everything that has been tried has not worked yet. The President won’t listen, only half of the Congress listens.
Blame the Democrats for not trying hard enough. Blame the Republicans for being obstructionists. Blame the President for getting us into this mess. Let’s blame everyone, but let’s not let another unnecessary war happen again. If war is not the first answer to solving our problems, then we wouldn’t be caught up in the mess we are in.
At times we rely too much on our leaders to actually to what they’re there to do; lead. All of the proposed plans to end the war must involve a majority of Congress. There are no other alternatives. You hear about Gravel’s plan to make it a felony, or about Kucinich’s to totally cut the funding. But they all end in the same way. A majority of Congress must participate.
Whose fault is it? The country elected Bush for another term. We are now screwed for the next year and a half. We need a clean sweep of Congress, and a President who will lead us to a more respected country.
The Final Cost of War? $1.4 Trillion
By Daniel Solis in War in Iraq on July 7, 2007
The never ending quagmire that is the War in Iraq could reach $1.4 Trillion by the end. That’s $12 Billion a month. The same war that has cost us over 3,600 American lives, and over 600,000 Iraqi civilian’s lives. All of this to preserve Bush’s non-existent “legacy” as the ‘Freedom Fighter’. 50 years from now, that legacy will actually be of an international terrorist who should have, but didn’t, listen to his people, the American people.
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