Posted by
Red Wing on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 8:59:11 PM
Consider for a moment - if in the hour of reckoning in WW2,
as Patton rolled through Europe, and the enemy had
retreated back to there homeland, that Roosevelt had come to
the unthinkable (now) conclusion that we had, for all intents and
purposes, got the job done, and re-deployed our
troops...Specken De Deutch?
Roosevelt, Truman, & Kennedy.
Names BHO likes to throw around, he will speak soon near an icon
of freedom made famous by speeches from some of America's
greatest leaders. And that would not be such a big deal, if
maybe he even remotely resembled or maintained similar
values of any of those great men! (Or was at least the
POTUS?)
BHO has not remained consistent on any singe issue throughout
this campaign, but nothing could be more true with respect to
that than his stance on the war in Iraq.
He drew all the anti war radical Code Pink/Marxist
Academia/Liberal Elitist types in just like a good used car
salesman would by hammering away at there selling point;
"We Can Not Win, We Should Have Never Gone, Bring Our
Troops Home Now"!
But now he has completely reversed himself and his new
mantra is; "Because of the Sunni's and some other
affiliated conditions in Iraq, we are winning, so now it's time to
re-deploy our troops into Afghanistan"?
Now, the gun issue, the campaign finance issue, and all the
long laundry list of reversals on the part of BHO pail in
comparison with this, how can these liberal anti war types any
longer support BHO?
But I digress...
We in America have always fought for what we believe in,
namely freedom, and if any reasonable, intelligent person
takes time to study the time line from 9/11 to the
present, it is clear, even the liberals were in agreement
we had to act, and act then!
In my view George Bush will go down in history as one
of the most courageous POTUS' in history. He took the fight to the
enemy, and won. He spared his Nation from repeated terrorist
attacks, and stood firm for what America needed to do, and allowed
the military to do their job, even in the face of being
vilified by the populist MSM of the time! (His domestic policy
aside, HA HA!)
Bush understands, as I believe does John McCain, that
the fastest, most economical way to get what everyone wants, our
brothers, husbands, and son's home, is to win the
war. Our generation could take a lesson from our
forefathers in this regard!
We ought never fight a war we didn't fully intend to win.
Once committed it is the highest form of treason to
undermine that end!
Now, I am certainly all for taking the fight to Afghanistan,
and eventually killing the last standing terrorist in the
badlands of Pakistan! But we must remember the lessons of
history, we must trust our Generals to fight the
wars and make our politicians ensure they have the tools
and latitude to do their jobs when called upon.
Obama though, can not even admit he was wrong on the
Surge, let alone making policy without even consulting the main
player in the theater of operations, General
Petraeus?
Unfortunately, our greatest sorrow may very well yet be ahead of
us, if we let ourselves wake up one day in 2009 and realize we
let a con man win the White House. An inexperienced,
egotistical, lightweight who believes he is better qualified to
make military decisions than a man like Gen. David Petraeus, who
has spent his whole life studying the art of war.
Wars are fought on the basis of right and wrongs, of
absolutes, not as BHO would like to have it by attempting
to make it a political issue.
John McCain was right to say, "I would rather lose an
election, and win a war". BHO can hardly say the same!
How many more terrorist produced "thousands killed
in an instant" moments will it take to convince the most liberal
senator in congress?