Found: Clinton's deadline

January 2009

Two years?


Set a deadline and get out of Iraq in six months to a year.

Though I realize that phrasing of all our leaders is directed to Iraqi leaders, the other citizens of Iraq are hearing the threats we make.

We do not honor other people -

so many people are phrasing the words related to getting out -

that says the same thing as -

get your act together or else.

We invade them, we slay them, we allow pillaging, we have plans to take their oil - and then we tell them - get your act together or else. We threaten them to sound tough for political advancement?

"... requiring the Iraqis to make political progress or lose funding for their military and reconstruction."

Yes, I want out of this 'thing' that we should never have entered in to as quickly as possible.

But have we lost ALL our diplomatic capabilites?

We just don't honor other people - the way we talk about these people should be looked at.

I don't want one more person to die - but can't we do it some other way - we sound so arrogant, so minus a heart about what we've done.

We need to make it sound like we're working with them - I think a total new team to handle this is the only way.

Sen. Clinton is hardly alone in doing this.

We are the most arrogant of people.

and patronized by democrats anymore than republicans.

I have had a serious problem with this hardline approach too.

This has a long history, but we poked a resting mass of wasp nests with a disreagard for the potential fallout.

I have a problem with the idea of caring more about American soldiers than Iraqi soldiers and citizens. All anyone talks about left or right is bringing our soldiers home.

How about we stopping the killing on both sides? How about ending collateral damage? This is part of our "work" in war. These are people whose lives should all have value. But, we talk about leaving all we talk about is some bizarre idea of "winning" and saving our own soldiers. When we are there we are part of the killing. No wonder many of them hate us.

I think that our diplomatic solutions need to leave room for something that resembles an apology.
You are absolutly correct in that the beginning of diplomacy is wrapped in language.

Not only were we wrong, we did "these people" wrong!!