The Best Reason to Have Never Gone into Iraq

The pattern of American military action since World War II has been various degrees of the same: don’t go all the way.  In Korea the US was limited by the UN and internal politics.  The US was forced by its own citizens to leave Vietnam in disgrace. In the First Iraq War, George Bush and his 1,000 points of freakin’ light globalist agenda required that we leave without finishing the job. The humanitarian missions of Bosnia and Somalia – besides being irrelevant to any American interests – illustrated the complete absence of the will to fight (especially when attacked).
Did Bush really think that this war would be any different?  To begin with, the US went in there and kicked butt.  Then the political correctness moved in, the limitation of which has hindered progress on every front.  Now Rumsfeld is gone and the new milktoast Secretary of defense is willing to accept defeat.

Let me ask, where has the political correctness benefited Bush in any aspect of his presidency?  No where.  Although he’s acted like, and played in concert with the Democrats, the Democrats still hate him.  His rejection of the conservative base has destroyed the Republican Party which is now so lame it has no place left in government. His criminal abandonment of the Constitution by his refusal to enforce border and immigration law has ensured a continued legacy of  American-born anchor-baby Democrat votes. In Iraq, he’s bent over backwards to act kind and compassionate.  He let Al Sadr go because he was holed up inside a mosque (we can’t bomb a mosque even if failing to do so would cause defeat). He let American bodies hang from a bridge in Fallujah for the whole world to see without bringing any reprisal upon those who killed them.  Global opinion is dominating the debate in America with no one willing to refute it.  Bush has cow-towed to the media, going to great measure to demonstrate the fairness and humanitarian conduct of the war.  What did he get in return? The media makes up it’s own bad news stories to report to the gullible populous.
I disagree with those that say the US is losing in Iraq.  The media reports are so incredibly falsified and biased to make the situation worse than it seems that the foolish, silly, ignorant American population voted the Al Qaeida party into control of Congress.

I think dying for one’s country is noble.  The service of thousands has been given in support of the mission.  Now that mission is abandoned as the nation goes whoring after defeat.  Bush has lost his will to fight.  The “Shock and Awe” that was promised never materialized.  I believe that the nation has a moral commitment to those who have died to dispense with all the political and religious tip-toeing around the issues and win the war!  Personally, I would be incensed if my son or daughter died fighting for a cause that had no commitment from the American government.
Yes, if Bush had the wisdom to begin with the end in mind, I don’t think we ever would have gone to Iraq.  The Democrats and their media comrades are thirsting for American defeat. That’s probably exactly what they will get too.

Read Wizbang’s take on this.