“We haven’t won in Iraq because our policy has been “niced up” in an attempt to appease people like PerryChase and the liberal press.”
PD, certainly you must be a more intelligent person than that quote indicates.
1). Our policy is set by congress and the Bush administration. You know as well as I do that neither the republicans who control congress nor the bush administration give the tiniest bit of a damn about the liberal press nor about people like PerryChase.
2). And even if congress did “nice up” our policies too much for your taste, it’s their fault, not the liberal press’ or PerryChase’s.
3). We’re losing the war in Iraq because the bush administration, and rumsfeld in particular, have displayed phenomenal incompetence in waging the war. They should have know better what to expect (W could’ve asked his father. His father knew, and he wrote about the very thing that’s actually happening right now long before W invaded Iraq), they should have been better prepared for that, and they should’ve abandoned rumsfelds failed policies years ago. The only reason you don’t see where the fault lies is that you refuse to.
Your quote is a perfect example of the republican mantra of “blame everything on everybody except us.” Only now that they’ve screwed the entire country (1. let thousands of Americans die and blown trillions of dollars on a war that got us… I don’t know what, you tell me 2.spent wild amounts of money domestically, much of it on pork, much more than any democratic administration ever has 3. borrowed trillions that our children will have to pay back), only now are some republican voters starting to say, maybe we should be doing things a bit differently. But the politicians are mostly still sticking to their “it’s not our fault” guns.
I don’t know, maybe it’s human nature to want to blame somebody else. It’s too bad we can’t expect more from our elected leaders.
