Bush Admits Faulty Iraq Intel

[Warham]

Nothing wrong with me. I think our military is doing a splendid job in Iraq.

I wonder how our troops feel about Murtha saying they are a 'broken'. Dan Rather should go over there and ask a few of our boys what they think.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by Warham
Nothing wrong with me. I think our military is doing a splendid job in Iraq.

I wonder how our troops feel about Murtha saying they are a 'broken'. Dan Rather should go over there and ask a few of our boys what they think.

We're not talking about "the job," or individual troops, this is about the system which sends a small percentage of the population to bear the burden others' rhetorical banter places on them...

**There are courageous MARINEs in RAMADI who have a high percentage of vehicles that no longer work, and have lost most of their armor to roadside bombings and ambushes**

Again, the biggest complaints I've read about from troops is simply that the IRAQ WAR is not in the public consciousness, and that it's not enough to just place a yellow-ribbon on one's bumper, or shout "troops out!" People just don't know enough, we're waging a clinical war using WWII rhetoric of heroism and all that, but without the homefront culture of sacrifice. This War is about selfishness...

[Warham]

How do you suggest people sacrifice?

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by Warham
How do you suggest people sacrifice?

They could start by not bitching about their taxes every ten minutes...

By carefully reading about the various problems, and maybe learning a little about IRAQ and how it came to be...

And maybe, just maybe start to consider some hard choices regarding the consumption of oil, and considering paying the added expense of synthetic gas production, increase funding research into alternative energy sources, and use less gasoline and heating oil...

Anything to get us the hell out of that part of the world by decreasing dependency on dino-fossil fuels...

[Warham]

I'm not sure who's been bitching about their taxes. If Bush came out tomorrow and said everybody needs to pay more, then I would be the first one in line. But apparently it's not needed, and the tax cuts have had a good effect on our economy.

I'd also like for us to start drilling for oil in our own country, but certain special interests aligned with treehuggers usually stops those efforts. Humanity will always use oil. Even if every car in the world didn't use oil, we'd still need it for plastics, etc, so alternative energy can only take you so far.