Who Lost Iraq?

xingu wrote:

LoneStarMadam wrote:

The bomb dropped on Nagasaki & Hiroshima was a terriable thing, but it sure ended hostilities with Japan & saving lives, both American & Japanese.

Are you suggesting we start dropping nukes to end the Iraq conflict? Or do you think we should do to the Sunnis insurgents what Saddam did to the Shiite and Kurd insurgents?

It would stop the war & be a discouraging sight for any others that wants to kill 3.000 of our citizens by suidide murderers.
What do you suggest be done to stop the war?

I read this morning that Tony Blair has finally admitted the Iraq invasion is a disaster.

timberlandko wrote:

No, not at all ... just offering observation based on experience; I'd rather not see this discussion get shut down thanks to some folks with difficulty maintaining adult, civil manner of discourse, particularly as regards direct member-on-member ad hominem attack. I would be unsurprised were that to turn out to be a futile, forlorn hope ... also based on experience.

Welcome to A2K, Monte Cargo and LoneStarMadam.

What timber is recommending, in a manner of speaking, is that you not rise to the bait of Setanta and kuvasz. Easy (and good) advice to give, but harder to follow. I certainly find myself responding to their nonsense frequently. One thing you will notice is they both often have a difficult time keeping a degree of civility in their posts.

The USA didn't even need the UN to agree, the President sent our troops in based on the powers of our own constitution. I personally think the UN is useless. They all agree to something then back down. How many times do you have to tell someone NO, lets see 16 or was it 17 times?

Apparently I bored you. Too bad, maybe you could have learned something new. Not everyone knows everything.

Back to the original question...."Who lost Iraq?"
I still want to know why the poster says that we have lost Iraq. We're still there, no draw down date has even been given.
BTW-The election is over & I would hope that now, out of common decency, if for no other reason, the Dems would stop using our military, ESPECIALLY OUR DEAD TROOPS, for political fodder.

LoneStarMadam wrote:

Back to the original question...."Who lost Iraq?"
I still want to know why the poster says that we have lost Iraq. We're still there, no draw down date has even been given.
BTW-The election is over & I would hope that now, out of common decency, if for no other reason, the Dems would stop using our military, ESPECIALLY OUR DEAD TROOPS, for political fodder.

Are you trying to say the dead are just a comma in history?

BTW-The election is over & I would hope that now, out of common decency, if for no other reason, the Dems would stop using our military, ESPECIALLY OUR DEAD TROOPS, for political fodder.

Back to the original question...."Who lost Iraq?"
I still want to know why the poster says that we have lost Iraq. We're still there, no draw down date has even been given.
BTW-The election is over & I would hope that now, out of common decency, if for no other reason, the Dems would stop using our military, ESPECIALLY OUR DEAD TROOPS, for political fodder.

LoneStarMadam wrote:

BTW-The election is over & I would hope that now, out of common decency, if for no other reason, the Dems would stop using our military, ESPECIALLY OUR DEAD TROOPS, for political fodder.

That's why we call it Remembrance Day - so that the military, particularly those who were killed in action - are never forgotten - and that the lessons learned never forgotten.

You may call it political fodder, I call it respect.

LoneStarMadam wrote:

Back to the original question...."Who lost Iraq?"
I still want to know why the poster says that we have lost Iraq. We're still there, no draw down date has even been given.
BTW-The election is over & I would hope that now, out of common decency, if for no other reason, the Dems would stop using our military, ESPECIALLY OUR DEAD TROOPS, for political fodder.

If you find your posts increasingly unmet by response it's likely because you are disappearing under their "ignore" function. And if you are being ignored, it will certainly have much to do with your lack of care in writing and in reading.

The "poster" didn't say Iraq was lost. He pasted an article by Andrew Bacevich which referenced a number of neoconservatives (quoted or writing in Vanity Fair) who describe the matter using that word. Did you read the pasted Bacevich piece? Did you attempt to locate the neoconservative comments referenced? Do you understand the term "neoconservative"? Are you in the least familiar with who they are? With their presence/influence in this administration?