A Message to All the Cut and Run Freepers Currently Polluting Free Republic

Friday, November 24, 2006 | Kristinn

[livius]

I agree. There's no way we should leave.

IMHO, the problems we are having there are the result of having to fight a PC war. We should simply have made the entire country submit and then made them all live in peace and free of their dictator for a few years until they got a taste for it, all the while keeping Iran and Syria at bay.

We should stay - but we should change our approach. Whether the Iraqis like it or not, they need us or they will have no country. Whether we like it or not, we have to finish what we started and we have to finish it well, but that may mean no more Mr. Nice Guy.

[TXBlair]

Thank you, Kristinn, for calling some weenies out on the carpet. I'm posting from Fort Hood, Texas, home of the the 4th Infantry Division, among other amazing divisions. These, of course, are the ones who pulled Saddam out of his wretched little hiding place. Please, FReepers, let's not let their heroics ever be in vain. Pray that President Bush continues to to listen to God for guidance. If God wants the president to change course, so be it. But if he is following through with what he is truly discerning from God, then I pray he stands steadfast until the job is done, no matter the criticism he faces both globally and locally. Thank God that our president doesn't govern by the whims of the attention-deficit American public!!

God bless our troops, God bless President Bush, and God bless FreeRepublic!!

[Doofer]

I've seen no evidence of this at all. Regardless, a cut'n run poster would be ZOTted. Ergo, I don't see the purpose of this thread.

I haven't either and I agree with your sentiments.

[Admin Moderator]

Knock it off with the keyword abuse.

[Sir Gawain]

What too many Americans fail to realize is that the war in Iraq is really a battle in a greater war against Islam.

Too many Americans don't realize it, and almost zero pantywaste politicians realize it. How can we win this greater war (not just Iraq) if we're afraid of defining the enemy?

[darkangel82]

Or: "I'm a Reagan conservative, but..." Invoking the name of Reagan.....I see such posters jumping up and down shouting, "I'm from Dummycrat Underground!"

They're called seminar posters.

[airborne]

My version of cut and run - Cut the PC bullcrap and run the bastards down and kill 'em!

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for a well written thread. All you have to do is look at the number of Freepers that would vote for Hillary to see we have a lot of cut and run DemocRATs because no Conservative would vote for her under any circumstance.

[Sunsong]

I think it's time to respect the Iraqis and help them set up a government that actually works for them while at the same time insisting that it not be a place that can be a breeding gorund for terrorists.

I am one who does think that the *mindset* of the people of Iraq needs to be respected. They do NOT share our values or our aspirations. The Sunnis hate the Shia and the Kurds. The Shia hate the Sunnis and the Kurds want their own state.

[Drago]

Which one? "Civil War"?

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civil war
n.
A war between factions or regions of the same country.
A state of hostility or conflict between elements within an organization: “The broadcaster is in the midst of a civil war that has brought it to the brink of a complete management overhaul” (Bill Powell).
Civil War The war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865. Also called War Between the States.
Civil War The war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists from 1642 to 1648.


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[FatherofFive]

My eyes filled with tears the day our troops entered Baghdad. I saw that very large Iraqi take a sledge hammer to the statue of Saddam, and that Marine put the US flag on the head of that statue before tearing it down.

Today, Sunnis kill 215 Shites, the Shites bomb a Sunni mosque. The Iraqui army stands by and does nothing.

I'm beginning to doubt that liberty means anything to Muslims.

I'm beginning to believe that a free and democratic Iraq is a dream we Americans want to see, but will never happen.

We spent our blood and treasure to give them liberty, and the spit in our face and plot our death.

I don't want to cut and run. Let's fight them there, and not here. They must be stopped. But I don't see a free Iraq.

[Bahbah]

wait until the RATS (& their lapdog the MSM) really start exercising their power.

You know, lily, I've begun to wonder who is controlling who.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

"LA-LA-LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA-LA-LA"

[Y0K]

Militiamen burn six Sunni worshippers alive, army does not intervene

Seattle Times BAGHDAD, Iraq – Shiite militiamen grabbed six Sunnis as they left worship services today, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive near Iraqi soldiers who did not intervene, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said. The savage revenge attack for Thursday's slaying of 215 people in the Shiite Sadr City slum occurred as members of the Mahdi Army militia burned four mosques, and several homes while killing an unknown number of Sunni residents in the once-mixed Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad. Gunmen loyal to radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr began taking over the neighborhood this summer and most of its Sunni residents already had fled.

At this time of our testing, the American people are starting to go wobbly. Sadly, many Freepers are too. Our troops and their Commander-in-Chief are not, thank God. It's only been three-and-a-half years.

I wish our President had woke up and smelled the coffee about a year ago. Rummy and the like have led our military (which is not an occupational force) down a miry patch. No, there were significant mistakes made and because I can see the mistake(s) and don't blindly "stay the course" does not make a coward of me and for you to quarter-back such a statement puts you in league with the inventor of the internet, Al Gore.

[He Rides A White Horse]

I call 'em, "easy to spot"....it seems you do as well.

[Mike Darancette]

On the day victory in Iraq is not the objective or on the day when a withdrawal date certain is set that is the date when all us troops and material should be withdrawn. American blood and treasure should only be expended when absolute victory is the objective.

[Exit148]

Right on Kristinn!

"Wobbly" Americans and Freepers ARE aiders and abettors.

[Brad from Tennessee]

The enemy has been encouraged by the U.S. news media and many Democrats in Congress. The recent election, which was a statistical average for the last midterm of any administration, has also emboldened the enemy because they believe they affected it. For me, this war will make the most sense if it is fought indefinitely. It is a test of wills and a test of faiths. If we exit Iraq the next battleground will be Europe and after that North America. I still believe Rumsfeld when he said we cannot lose this war militarily in Iraq but we can lose it in Washington D.C. and in the newsrooms of the U.S.

[ZULU]

Political correctness is stranguling us.

[GOPJ]

Thank you, kristinn.