where will it stop, part 2
This by way of observation.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been quoted as saying that the Congress will give the "harshest scrutiny" to a plan to put more troops into the battle for Iraq.
I hope so.
The real tale will be told if the Congress is able to impose its will in any significant part on the President as it pertains to the continued prosecution of the conflict. This has the potential to be as significant as the resignation of Richard Nixon in terms of our national charter at work. If the W proceeds as he see's fit, and is not called on it, then we might as well hang it up.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been quoted as saying that the Congress will give the "harshest scrutiny" to a plan to put more troops into the battle for Iraq.
I hope so.
The real tale will be told if the Congress is able to impose its will in any significant part on the President as it pertains to the continued prosecution of the conflict. This has the potential to be as significant as the resignation of Richard Nixon in terms of our national charter at work. If the W proceeds as he see's fit, and is not called on it, then we might as well hang it up.
posted by eccentric recluse at 10:55 AM
5 Comments:
dude, i have no idea whats happening in american politics, but i just came to say hi...
... so hi!
News flash: We're at war with a good chunk of the Arab population; and will be for a LONG time. Iraq is just one of the fronts. What do you think will happen to that war effort, over the long-haul, if we cede this front ?
The evil, "I told you so" in me wants the Dems to get their way.. have us throw in the towel in Iraq, but I can't stomach the thought of how the emboldened terrorists would respond.
--but I will say it (I told you so), after the next 9/11 --
Anonymous said...
News flash: We're at war with a good chunk of the Arab population
We'll be at war with a good chunk of the Arab population if bush and his neoconserative buddies get their way. We needed to root out extremists of the Islam faith and not invade Iraq...Iran...Syria...
And by the way, while you'd love to say "I told you so" after the next 9/11 think about this. What happened to nearly half a trillion dollars spent on the Iraq occupation. Could that money have been spent better on things like homeland security, maybe real on the ground intelligence to help stop the next 9/11???
JB
Be sure.. I don't like how and why we got into Iraq. I was vocal about it, but once we're in, we're in. I agree it's been a bad, expensive policy, but the barn door is closed on that horse.
If we bail now.. it'll be more expensive and deadlier.
Good points all, but I have to wonder whether our continued presence in Iraq will have have any impact at all on the if/when of another 9/11?
We're at war with a good chunk of the Arab population; and will be for a LONG time.
No kiddin? All this predates 9/11 by a long shot, and the situation will continue for the foreseeable future, to escalate or pull out of Iraq will have nothing to do with this. Personally, I believe that iraq is being waged by the Islamic world as a war of attrition, they really cannot win, but they can make it expensive enough and bloody enough for us that we will not be a credible threat to any future plans or operations.
I just don't see a percentage in staying in the quagmire.
Like I said, the most significant battle for us is how this will play out in our government. I do not want the Congress to run roughshod over the Presidency, nor do I want the Presidency to become elevated to something it was not intended to be.
just my $0.02
thanks for coming by!
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