--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 7/31/07 11:06:31 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > It is such a cynical view from both sides to use the death of men, > women and children as a political pawn to score points. really > sickening and cold-hearted. Whether the surge "works" or not, I just > want this damned war to be over soon, and for us as a country to > recognize that it has solved nothing.:-) > > > > > Do you really want it to be for nothing?:) Why don't you want it to be a > success? I'll tell you why, because then you can say you were right. Pure ego > and it gives the Democrats another chance to relive the days following the > defeat in Vietnam . If it works, there is a new democracy in an area of the world > that is used to tyrants and dictators that breed the very unrest and > hopelessness that fuels the violence so common to the middle east. It also allows > people in other middle eastern nations to ask why they couldn't have the same > thing. In effect you said it from your heart, you want a defeat, you want > failure, you want it to solve nothing.
That isn't what he said, now, is it? He said it has not and will not solve anything, and what he wants is for everyone to recognize that fact. Most do, by now. It really is hard to accomplish anything > when you have to drag around so much dead weight. The "dead weight" being dragged around is the neocons' wet dream you have so clearly articulated above. It was always a fantasy. There is an old saying, > Either lead, follow or get the hell out of the way. About time for the Republicans to follow that very sage advice and get behind the Democrats' lead in bringing an end to this catastrophe.
