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• Tuesday, February 21, 2006 01:42 PM

  Lisa

  Sorry about my lengthy diatribe, but there is so much that goes into this whole concept, it's hard to simply blame the President, or Congress, or both. I do not want us to be there any more than you do. I just want it completed the right way without Salon, Walsh, or other doves that have never stood a dangerous post in a hot spot to even remotely think they know what’s best for our soldiers. Or think that they can write and publish anything without consequence. You bet if President Bush did something (other than the war) tomorrow that possibly made soldiers die, you, and everyone else on the left would be clamoring for his resignation, etc. But let’s just let the press do whatever it wants, all the time. In the military, we used to joke that CNN was SecretNN because they would report troop movements, etc, when they got the chance. Do you wonder if we (the military) really wanted the enemy to KNOW where we are going? Kind of takes the surprise part out of the equation and also greatly increased the likely hood of a harder fight because now the enemy is better prepared. (This then equates to a greater loss of American life)

  The entire resolution is listed here:

  http://www.c-span.org/resources/pdf/hjres114.pdf

  Take the time and read it in its entirety and you can see why Bill Clinton, Bush II, the House of Representatives, and the Senate all voted for the resolution. You, like so many others have fallen into the hard lefts trap of "It's all about the WMD.", and as you can see it was not JUST the WMD. It may have been the thing that made us all take pause during this process, but the bottom line is there was a myriad of reasons in which to do this.

  Paragraph III through VII says it all, and I wonder what would have happened if he just would have let the inspectors in. He didn't for few possible reasons:

  1. His willingness to intimidate his enemies (including Iran)

  2. His continued development of WMD (Some say it went to Syria, but can we believe that?)

  3. He thought we would back down and go home.

  So, in my opinion, the past is the past. Stop the blaming, and start figuring out a plausible exit strategy. This we ALL want.

  —Fed Up with Irresponsible Journalism
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