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2007-08-01 Home Front: WoT

Dems Want to Keep GOP From Votes on Iraq

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-08-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 Fools. You cannot "end the war". Wars are won or lost, and Democrats are the losers. Keep voting them in and you ALL shall be losers.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-08-01 06:05|| 2007-08-01 06:05|| Front Page Top

#2 "Polls have long shown the war to be unpopular,..."

That wouldn't have anything to do with your own non-stop efforts to undermine public support for the war, would it? You started yelling "Quagmire!" and "It's Vietnam all over again!" back in March of 2003 even before the last of our invasion force crossed over into Iraq, and you haven't let up for a moment since.

"I would hate to be in a situation where the Democratic Party was trying to explain that it wants to score political points rather than end the war."

But you have no problem at all with scoring political points rather than helping us win the war, do you?

We've got a stark, either-or choice in front of us: we can either win this war, or we can let these scumbags continue to run around loose undermining our every effort to defend this country. But not both.

Want to win the war? Then round these assholes up and get them out of the way. NOW.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-08-01 06:51|| 2007-08-01 06:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Can anyone think of a single 'Popular' war in the entire history of the world?

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-08-01 08:09|| 2007-08-01 08:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Those that end in victory.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-08-01 08:10|| 2007-08-01 08:10|| Front Page Top

#5 NS, actually, even WWII was getting unpopular in the US near the end, especially after some of the horrific battles in the Pacific. There was some concern that the public would not support an invasion of the Japanese home islands, due to the projected bloodbath that would ensue.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-08-01 09:03|| 2007-08-01 09:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Good point, Rambler, but how much more "unpopular" would WWII have been if the "Democracy Corps" took the polls back then, lol?

Posted by BA 2007-08-01 09:16|| 2007-08-01 09:16|| Front Page Top

#7 The real reason the Dems don't want to vote on the issue is to avoid being on record come Nov. '08. They want to "end the war" without being pegged with losing it. Wankers. The more progress is made in Iraq, the smaller the corner they paint themselves into.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2007-08-01 09:41|| 2007-08-01 09:41|| Front Page Top

#8 The last popular war was the Spanish-American war. All since then have had a good bout of unpopularity with a significant portion of the population. Most before that too.

Ok, almost all wars have a good chunk of unpopularity. But the dhimocrats have taken it to outright treason and selling America's safety downriver for power.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-08-01 09:46|| 2007-08-01 09:46|| Front Page Top

#9 #5 -- I'm sure the growing revulsion on the US electorate over US casualties in the Pacific theater of operations by 1945 had a great deal to do with the decision to nuke the Empire of Japan - twice. Elsewhere I read some leftist snark that "we did the Japanese a favor" by dropping the atomic bomb on them. Perhaps we did after all.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-08-01 13:45|| 2007-08-01 13:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Depends on what Polls who is looking at: The ones who KNOW how to read polls, and detect the self-serving ones, know that the public is unsatisfied by the current progress of the war, but that they also want us to WIN that war.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2007-08-01 14:39|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2007-08-01 14:39|| Front Page Top

#11 Darth,
Actually, the Spanish American war got pretty unpopular once malaria season kicked in. And if you count the Philippine Insurection (that cost more than the war with the Spaniards), you wound up with a mess.

Pretty much every war in America has been unpopular from the French and Indian war forward.

Americans have an unofficial time limit of 3 years to win our wars, and George Bush hasn't even tried to get the GWOT done in that time frame. Taking any longer provides the Dems with a temptation that they just can't resist.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-08-01 18:11|| 2007-08-01 18:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Democracy Corps is a dem pressure group. They whine about being non partisan but everything they do is donk-driven. Set lasers to .

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2007-08-01 18:56|| 2007-08-01 18:56|| Front Page Top

#13 One such bill requires the Pentagon to provide Congress with plans for a troop redeployment within 60 days. The measure cleared the House Armed Services last week on a bipartisan vote of 55-2.

Since when does the Pentagon do planning at Congress' bidding? Is there any precedent for that?

Posted by KBK 2007-08-01 19:58|| 2007-08-01 19:58|| Front Page Top

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