Letter to the Editor
I think the reason that Tony Blair is resigning is that he can see that the Iraq war is about to melt down and he wants to be out of there so that it doesn't happen while he is in charge. If Bush wants the war to not fail while he is president then maybe he should do what Blair is doing and resign before Iraq melts down.
Letter to the Editor
Bush and the Congress are talking about authorizing funding for Iraq based on "benchmarks" which require Iraq to accomplish certain feats to get continued funding. But on the eve of the Iraqi parliament starting a two month vacation we already know that Iraq isn't going to meet the benchmarks. So why bother?
This is all about stalling. Bush wants to stall because he wants to stick the failure on the next president. The Democrats want to stall because they are too chicken to cut off funding and a bad war helps them in the next election. And the Republicans have an adverse relationship with reality and are trying desperately to hold on to their denial. But the real problem is with the American people because if we aren't going to accept reality as a nation then our leaders won't either. If we continue to elect leaders because they lie and tell us what we want to hear, then who are we to complain when we believe it?
The war was fatally flawed to begin with. So if we win the war then we succeed at a failed plan. Maybe a better way to win is to fail to accomplish the failed mission. This is a war where losing is actually better than winning and the sooner we lose this war the quicker America can get back to reality. Reality is reaching out to tap America on the shoulder. The time has come to listen to the voice of reality.
Letter to the Editor
Republicans are in between a rock and a hard place when it comes to their war in Iraq. With the Iraqi parliament about to take a 2 month vacation it's rather doubtful that they will be meeting the benchmarks that they seem to favor. On one hand Republicans don't want to lose the war. But it's not a matter of if we lose but when and the longer we wait the bigger we lose. The only things that all Iraqis agree on is that Americans should get out.
America is still in denial about the war but the denial is wearing off. If Americans didn't like the war in the 2006 elections they really won't like the war in the 2008 election. One thing that might be useful about the war is that the Republicans own it and the longer it goes on the more the Democrats get to rub their noses in it. It will be interesting to see how long the Republicans will support a war that is dragging them down.