Posted on 06/27/2005 7:56:26 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
Dear Mr. President,
I’ve no idea what your advisers are telling you, but based on my own experience in Washington I suspect they are talking more bluntly among themselves than they are to you. So I’m writing to deliver an unpleasant message you must hear, and hear now: We are in danger of losing the war in Iraq.
To understand why, think back for a moment to what happened in Vietnam. Even as our troops did better and better on the ground – as they killed more and more North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers and secured more and more of South Vietnam itself – support for that war eroded here at home. For example, the Tet offensive was a huge military victory for our forces – but a decisive political defeat in the US. Simply put, we didn’t lose the Vietnam war in Vietnam. We lost it in Washington.
In just the last week, a ferocious national debate has erupted over the war. Your political enemies have launched a public-relations offensive to convince Americans that we are losing in Iraq. You and members of your administration are responding by arguing that despite the visible setbacks, such as all those horrific bombings in and around Baghdad, the war in Iraq is going well. The truth lies somewhere in between.
In some ways the war really is going well. For example, the new Iraqi government is making a remarkable amount of progress every day, reconstruction projects are forging ahead, and the Iraqi security forces are starting to make their presence felt throughout the country. But in other ways, the war isn’t going very well. The level of physical security remains abysmal
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The terrorists are the ones who have lost the war. Now we're into clean-up.....
We are NOT in danger of losing Iraq.
I really wish people would quit saying that and stop listening to the MSM. Iraq is quickly stabilizing. The Iraqi military is more capable today than it was yesterday and it is quickly becoming moreso.
I wish this guy had actually SPENT some time in Iraq before doing this stupid trite "open letter" BS.
The only thing I see that he got right is that no general ever thinks he has enough troops.
The only way we can lose in Iraq is if we let the MSM liberal echochamber break the resolve of our soldiers and embolden our enemies. We are winning and they are losing. Withdrawing or weakening ourselves in any way just gives in. We can only lose if we let ourselves lose.
the soldiers don't have any problems with their morale to finish the job or their resolve.
It is the people back here in the states that have no finishing power....
If you think he is wrong, you just don't have access to all the facts and poll numbers I do.
Whatever the merits of the decision to invade Iraq and although I would not have done it if I were President, I think Bush's decision to invade was justifiable; but whatever the merits of the initial invasion decision, the plan for the next step was wrong; and we are in a losing position today. Action must be taken to correct the situation and if we do not act, the damage will be enormous.
A bump for common sense.
Only the resolve of the Congress need be impaired to effect a defeat for our troops!
"The only way we can lose in Iraq is if we let the MSM liberal echochamber break the resolve of our soldiers and embolden our enemies."
Or, perhaps, continue to restrain from using every weapon system and tactic available to our troops to its maximum capability. Time to stop this pussyfooting around, and kick some ass; stop worrying about offending lefty peaceniks and weak-kneed fools.
And how do we correct the situation? The US military has to be right 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A suicide bomber has to be right only once.
The left knows this and are playing to this just as they did in Vietnam. Want to correct it? First thing you do is bring Kennedy and Durbin up on charges of sedition.
And how do we correct the situation? The US military has to be right 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A suicide bomber has to be right only once.
The left knows this and are playing to this just as they did in Vietnam. Want to correct it? First thing you do is bring Kennedy and Durbin up on charges of sedition.
Lots to ponder with this one but I can't believe he advocates bombing Iran and Syria. "Shock and awe" was the biggest tactical error in Iraq because it didn't shock and awe. All you would do is at least triple the number of terrorist attacks with the likelihood of hits here in North America.
A war always looks bad from the rear. Time to take a look from the front.
We are already well into the "Vietnamization" process in Iraq. By that I mean that the fight is being turned over to the Iraqi security forces. Anecdotal evidence suggests that some of these Iraqi units have already fought well even while taking significant casualties. It's becoming the Iraqi's war 'to lose'.
Bingo, bingo, BINGO!
Wrong.
This is a representative Republic, the People (eventually) rule.
Either the government engages the People as homefront warriors dedicated to victory (and I mean with full-blown press censorship, 24/7 propaganda, and all the other tools permitted by the War Power of the United States), or we lose.
Almost four years have been wasted on the home front. It may be too late, now.
But Meyer is exactly right about what is needed for victory. And nightly rag body counts ain't it.
The groundwork for that has not been laid.
The FIRST thing to do, the very first thing, was to call for volunteers in the speech to Congress on 9/16/01. Fifty divisions should have been raised for the conquest of Arabia, which was necessary then and is still necessary now.
The second thing to do was to impose press censorship.
The third thing to do was to open and fund a 24/7 propaganda operation.
After winning the elections of 2002 and 2004 on a war platform, and after opposition press voices were silenced, you could go after Durbin and Kennedy.
Now, it may be too late.
But the difference between Iraq and Vietnam is-WE CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE!
It never mattered two sh*ts who ran the shi*hole in Saigon.
It matters, cosmically, if we are chased out of Iraq.
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