Comments on: In Iraq, we have to try http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/10/in-iraq-we-have-to-try/ I used to be in the middle, but they keep moving the line! Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:58:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Polimom Says » McCain and Obama: Both wrong on Iraq http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/10/in-iraq-we-have-to-try/#comment-130658 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:12:57 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/10/in-iraq-we-have-to-try/#comment-130658 [...] Yet even though I’d opposed the Iraq war vehemently and vociferously in 2002/3, I argued in favor of the surge — because it offered a hope, however slim, of heading off a complete meltdown. I took a lot of heat for saying we should try; that I was naive to “hope”; that it was too long a shot (and it was indeed a long-shot) … but folks, the situation today is vastly improved from late 2006 / early 2007. [...] […] Yet even though I’d opposed the Iraq war vehemently and vociferously in 2002/3, I argued in favor of the surge — because it offered a hope, however slim, of heading off a complete meltdown. I took a lot of heat for saying we should try; that I was naive to “hope”; that it was too long a shot (and it was indeed a long-shot) … but folks, the situation today is vastly improved from late 2006 / early 2007. […]

]]> by: The Moderate Voice » Blog Archive » What Americans want http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/10/in-iraq-we-have-to-try/#comment-53816 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:31:29 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/10/in-iraq-we-have-to-try/#comment-53816 [...] That’s true… but I don’t think Americans want the outcome of withdrawal, either, and that was the basis of my post late last night. As often happens, though, sleep gave my thoughts time to fall more fully into place, and this morning I found myself questioning this assumption of what it is we do want… or at least, what I want. [...] […] That’s true… but I don’t think Americans want the outcome of withdrawal, either, and that was the basis of my post late last night. As often happens, though, sleep gave my thoughts time to fall more fully into place, and this morning I found myself questioning this assumption of what it is we do want… or at least, what I want. […]

]]> by: Ed T. http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/10/in-iraq-we-have-to-try/#comment-53812 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:32:07 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/10/in-iraq-we-have-to-try/#comment-53812 I spent last night watching "Top Chef" reruns - <em>sooo</em> much less stressful for me, and I probably got most of the flavor of the speech/counter-speech anyway (just with a few more <strong>[BLEEP]</strong>-worthy words.) I figure, what the heck - as a good hard-core neocon, I'll just wait until later today, hear what <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com" rel="nofollow">Rush</a> and <a href="http://www.foxnews.com" rel="nofollow">FOX News</a> have to say, and then use their talking points as the basis for my marching orders. Oh, and I have the perfect solution: let's send the esteemed Mr. Baker from almost-Katy over to Iraq to organize some Friday Night Pig Races. A perfect win-win: Katy gets rid of a major embarassment, and the Iraqis finally have an 'enemy' that could unite them. ~EdT. I spent last night watching “Top Chef” reruns - sooo much less stressful for me, and I probably got most of the flavor of the speech/counter-speech anyway (just with a few more [BLEEP]-worthy words.)

I figure, what the heck - as a good hard-core neocon, I’ll just wait until later today, hear what Rush and FOX News have to say, and then use their talking points as the basis for my marching orders.

Oh, and I have the perfect solution: let’s send the esteemed Mr. Baker from almost-Katy over to Iraq to organize some Friday Night Pig Races. A perfect win-win: Katy gets rid of a major embarassment, and the Iraqis finally have an ‘enemy’ that could unite them.

~EdT.

]]> by: The Heretik : The Staggering Reality http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/10/in-iraq-we-have-to-try/#comment-53810 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:16:24 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/10/in-iraq-we-have-to-try/#comment-53810 [...] The advance of freedom may be the calling of our time. But it looks somebody called the pharmacist. Your president is on drugs. No soaring rhetoric, no smirk. Little flourish or fire in the eyes. No real explanation for how the Iraqis are to be held accountable on their end. What’s Bush going to do? Leave before the job, the mission, is done? [...] […] The advance of freedom may be the calling of our time. But it looks somebody called the pharmacist. Your president is on drugs. No soaring rhetoric, no smirk. Little flourish or fire in the eyes. No real explanation for how the Iraqis are to be held accountable on their end. What’s Bush going to do? Leave before the job, the mission, is done? […]

]]> by: Jack http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/10/in-iraq-we-have-to-try/#comment-53808 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:14:46 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/10/in-iraq-we-have-to-try/#comment-53808 I have found an odd turn of events lately. There is a growing number of people who want to do something about the Darfur, Sudan problems going on. But some of the same people will tell you that we must leave Iraq to defend itself. Why do so many people see a genocide issue in Iraq as not our problem, but don't mind finding other problems in the world for us to fix? I have found an odd turn of events lately. There is a growing number of people who want to do something about the Darfur, Sudan problems going on. But some of the same people will tell you that we must leave Iraq to defend itself.

Why do so many people see a genocide issue in Iraq as not our problem, but don’t mind finding other problems in the world for us to fix?

]]> by: The Master http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/10/in-iraq-we-have-to-try/#comment-53806 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:38:03 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/10/in-iraq-we-have-to-try/#comment-53806 Polimom, I listened to the speech too. I must have been dreaming, though when Dick Durbin came on to make the official Democratic party response. Did I doze off, or did he really say that the Democrats opposed adding more troops because it would allow the Iraqis to rely on the US to do their work for them? That we should demand that they step up and take ownership of all that must be done? Unless I'm dreaming that is the position taken by Donald Rumsfeld . . . . . you know, the guy the Democrats have been blaming for the whole Iraq mess (after Bush, that is). So, the official Democrat position is now to endorse the priorities and positions of Donald Rumsfeld? Looks like Bush Derrangement Syndrome has infected the entire Democratic leadership. It would be amusing, if it wasn't so pathetic. Polimom,

I listened to the speech too. I must have been dreaming, though when Dick Durbin came on to make the official Democratic party response. Did I doze off, or did he really say that the Democrats opposed adding more troops because it would allow the Iraqis to rely on the US to do their work for them? That we should demand that they step up and take ownership of all that must be done?

Unless I’m dreaming that is the position taken by Donald Rumsfeld . . . . . you know, the guy the Democrats have been blaming for the whole Iraq mess (after Bush, that is).

So, the official Democrat position is now to endorse the priorities and positions of Donald Rumsfeld? Looks like Bush Derrangement Syndrome has infected the entire Democratic leadership.

It would be amusing, if it wasn’t so pathetic.

]]> by: The Moderate Voice » Blog Archive » Bush Admits He Made Mistakes In Iraq War And Asks For New Support http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/10/in-iraq-we-have-to-try/#comment-53799 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:10:57 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/10/in-iraq-we-have-to-try/#comment-53799 [...] (1)Our coblogger Michael Sticking’s live blogging on the speech HERE. (2)Our coblogger Polimom’s post on the speech HERE. [...] […] (1)Our coblogger Michael Sticking’s live blogging on the speech HERE. (2)Our coblogger Polimom’s post on the speech HERE. […]

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