What is wrong with people?

We are in Iraq to Stay
November 21st, 2005

America’s political elites have a secret they don’t intend to share with the voters.

Democrats claim to want our military out of Iraq more or less immediately, though only three of them have the guts to vote that way. President Bush promises we will stay until the job is done and no longer. Both camps know full well that nobody holding elective office in Washington D.C. today will live to see the end of our military presence in Iraq. It is quite likely that nobody now numbered among the living will still be drawing breath when the last American soldiers come home from Iraq, even taking into account advances in medical technology.

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Even if the Democrats ride an anti-war wave back into power, our troops will remain in Iraq. This is not because the Democrats are incapable of doing anything as monumentally stupid as abandoning Iraq. The Democrat Party was, after all, largely responsible for our abandonment of Vietnam. No American government will abandon Iraq because doing so would be to take ownership of the next terrorist attack on our homeland.

If America ever left Iraq the terrorists would crow about their great victory. They would announce that we are weakened and vulnerable and call for renewed attacks against us. An attack would come, and the administration that retreated on the verge of victory could not escape the blame for it. Very few politicians in either party are reckless enough to take the kind of political risk that withdrawing from Iraq would entail. All the talk of timetables is empty political posturing.


http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5007


The flaw in this type of thinking is it doesn't factor in public opinion.


The Democrat Party was responsible for our WISE WITHDRAWAL from Vietnam.


Dear American Drinker: please read John Kerry's plan

How do they manage to make it Dems fault? Dems may have urged the withdrawl, but they didn't say "make it messy."

Vietnam is a Republican playbook for what not to do when hightailing
it out of a dangerous mess.

The idea that a rational, well-timed withdrawal from Iraq is impossible is malarkey.

Also, when it's convenient for them to do so, they draw parallels between Iraq and Vietnam.