jgoins ... chickenlittle


nice strawman argument.

I love how republicans voters have become suckers for the president. Well at least the few that are still holding on. The Limbaugh and Hannity crowd will never see reality.

Choosing sides in the sectarian violence will bring disaster to Iraq and the US. That would be the dumbest move ever.

If the US decided to back the shia (70% of the people in Iraq) then friendly sunni nations like Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, etc. would turn their back on us. Of course we know that Bush could never turn his back on the Saudi Bin Laden family. They are apart of the Carlyle group which his father is a partner.

If we back the Sunni (20% of the Iraqi people) then Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, etc. rain hell down upon us. Terrorist attacks would return to American soil. Choosing a side in the current Iraqi civil war is not an option.

1) The only option is to redeploy US troops to the borders to prevent outsiders from entering the country.

2) Remove US patrols from Iraqi cities. The Iraqi tribes will kill each other at the same rate whether US soldiers are policing city streets or not. No reason for US soldiers to die in vain.

3) Press the Iraqi government to get off its ass. Give them a timetable of 6 months to take over their country. Yes a fucking timetable.

4) Set up alliances with every country in the region to make sure the Iraqi government succeeds. That includes Iran and Syria. We need humanitarian, financial and military aid from other nations in the region to achieve a stable Iraq.

Of course most of these things should have been sought before the occupation began. But the Bush admin has been incompetant in every area so why not this one too.