Posted on 04/12/2007 6:34:07 AM PDT by joseph20
The Real Surge Story
By Joe Biden
Thursday, April 12, 2007; Page A27
If the president's plan won't work, what will? History suggests only four other ways to keep together a country riven by sectarian strife:
We allow or help one side to win, which would require years of horrific bloodletting.
We perpetuate the occupation, which is impossible politically and practically.
We promote the return of a dictator, who is not on the horizon but whose emergence would be the cruelest of ironies.
Or we help Iraq make the transition to a decentralized, federal system, as called for in its constitution, where each major group has local control over the fabric of its daily life, including security, education, religion and marriage.
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Maybe the image he will see in the mirror will be Neil Kinnock.
“...Joe Biden’s inability to put together a grammatically correct sentence.”
You’re assuming he wrote it. Sounds a little like Neil Kinnock to me.
We should have gone for “We allow or help one side to win...” right from the start. It would not have been our blood flowing. As it is, we’ve spent a lot of lot blood and treasure for folks who largely don’t appreciate it or who are actively our enemies. Being “nice” to enemy populations is not just wasteful, its dangerous.
Joe Biden should be hanged for treason.
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY YOU ARE FIGHTING IN IRAQ ?
The answer :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-w116jnL7Y
Which side are you suggesting we should we have chosen? The al-Sadr killers or the Sunni killers?
Does he mean Iraq or the U.S.? Think I'm just throwing out a remark?...read my Tag Line.
Hard to say, but the Sunnis supported Saddam, caused most of the trouble, and since Al Qaeda is mostly Sunni, I’d probably go with letting the Kurds and Shia exterminate the Sunni.
Then they’d probably then fall in with Iran, but that’s an issue for another day.
Of course, then Saudis (Sunnis) would be PO’d, complicating things - another issue for another day - like reminding them that we haven’t forgotten that 15 of the 19, most of Al Qaeda’s money, etc., were from Saudis.
Actually, isn’t Joe Biden’s “plan” what Bush has been working for all along, encumbered primarily by the MSM and Democrat’s active aid and abetting of terrorists?
There is no way the Iraqis would let Joe Biden tell them what do do, at this point. They have a constitution, numnuts.
Numnuts? O, that’s classy. Take your gutter language out of here.
As for the substance of what you said, I have no idea what you are talking about. Biden’s CLAIM (and my slam on MSM and the Democrats should make it obvious I ain’t buying his claim) is that he wants to just help Iraq towards a federal system of self-determination, as provided for in their Constitution.
My point is that after years of assaulting the Republican Party, Biden is essentially presenting as his boldly different plan the exact same thing he has been attacking.
I think I misinterpreted your post, which was addressed to Biden, and not, as I thought, me.
While painting oil and canvas on my ranch I reflect back to reality, wondering to myself about the stupidity of political and practical impossibilities...
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