"Maxprop" wrote in message
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"Nathan Branden" wrote in message
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On 15 Mar 2007 19:22:09 -0500, Dave wrote:

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:43:17 GMT, "Maxprop"
said:

If the insurgency and the civil
unrest in Iraq comes to a halt, and the country falls into a period
of
democratic prosperity and peace, Bush will be hailed as a great
President
and a world leader cut from the same cloth as Churchill and
Eisenhower. You
can't honestly expect any rational person to believe the left wants
that.

David Brooks had a thoughtful column on that topic in today's times.
He says
essentially that there are two defensible positions. If you think the
situation in Iraq is inevitably going to deteriorate into permanent
sectarian violence, you don't want us in the middle, and you get the
troops
out as fast as possible. If you think there's a prospect of creating
a
stable Iraq, then you back staying there until the job is finished.
The Dems
want to continue criticizing Bush but are unwilling to take
responsibility
for saying they think the situation is hopeless and we should pull
out, so
they cast about with their fingers in the air trying to come up with
something that sounds plausible. So far they have only persuaded
people that
they don't know what they're doing.


That is what I've been saying all along. Murtha, former Marine and
Democrat knows this too. Total commitment or total withdrawal. There
can be nothing in between.

Vietnam comes to mind.

Max


sumthing no kan cum to nuthing (he he he).

todd