Three US Troops Missing: Could Bush Have Avoided This?

Yep, me, too. But when you have a CIC who is being counseled by muslims, has longstanding business relationships with muslims, and believes islam is a peaceful religion (according to him, they worship the same god as Christians and Jews), this is what you get. GW Bush has done more to emasculate our military than any other president this country has ever had, IMO. Hearts and minds, ya know. Nation building, ya know.

 

Nice thought, but politically impossible.

Falluja comes to mind. Using limited force in the attack, we were still castigated by anti war liberals here at home and other nations for "excessive" civilian casualties.

 

Again, nice thought but still unrealistic.

It is my opinion that the U.S. may not "win" another war...ever.

Our military will win the battles, but liberal appeasers and defeatists here at home will make sure we "lose" the war, if it takes longer than, oh say...a year.

How many Liberals does it take to win a war?

How many of you Liberals does it take to win a war?
Well how the hell can we tell? You won’t fight one anymore.
You say that you support the troops, but the truth’s plain as your face,
You’d pull us from the battle, march us home in full disgrace.
You’ve no stomach for the fighting, got no mettle, got no pluck;
If you ran this war on terror, we’d be a very well plucked duck.
The wolves of Jihad smell your dread, can smell your craven breath,
And emboldened by the fear they scent, lust for our bloody death.

“But wait,” you protest piously, “We are fighters for the poor.”
Might we suggest you start to fight, before wolves come through the door?
Do you think they’ll still believe in you, your poor, your gays, your blacks,
When the wolves run wild among them, sinking fangs into their backs?
Think then that they’ll be caring, when they’re counting out their dead,
We inflict pain upon a captive wolf to learn what’s in his head?
Do you really think, you bleeding hearts, when they bleed in scarlet torrents,
They’ll care we cage the savage wolves, search lairs without signed warrants?

SNIP

So how many of you Liberals does it take to win a war?
Or is there simply nothing you believe worth fighting for?
How is it that you’ve never learned, like most when they grow older,
That appeasing badness is a bad idea, only makes the bad guys bolder.
Has your fear of spilling human blood made you Jihad’s useful fools,
Ignoring that their wolf packs never fight within the rules?
By your demand we stay our hand, you weaken and you bind us;
Forcing us to fight off wolf attacks with that hand tied behind us.

Russ Vaughn

 

I am no liberal, and I hope by now many know this.
But I am apalled that you seem to be suggesting that "scorched earth" be adapted here on this area ?
Are you suggesting a wholesale massacre of the population ?
In my country when we were still under the dictatorship, some of his troops applied the "juez de cuchillo" principle, "scorched earth", "no man's zone".
Same tactics the Japanese army applied during the second world war, when Japanese troops or Korean conscripts were killed in a certain town by the Filipino guerillas.
They burned the whole town down, raped women, indiscriminately killed civilians, and tossed babies into the air to catch them with their bayonets.
General "Howling" Smith earned his nickname during the Filipino American war when he ordered his men to scorch the whole town of Balangiga in Samar province. He said to make it a howling wilderness. In retaliation for the death of many of his men as a result of guerilla warfare being waged in resistance against American occupation.
Is this what you are suggesting, Martin ?

I should hope not.

I would say yes to no prisoners. No quarters given, none asked.

But certainly not to indiscriminate killing.

That makes us no better than the terrorists.

 

It doesn't matter whether the anti war liberals here at home and other nations castigate us or not, if we had a CIC who really cared about what was best for his troops and wasn't deluded by his muslim friends, muslim advisors, and muslim business cronies. Our sons and daughters are his and his associates (our enemies) cannon fodder. GW Bush cares not one wit about our nation or our military IMO. His actions over 2 terms have proven that is the case. One cannot build a civilized nation within a nation of people whose religion teaches they will go to paradise when they kill you.

To prove my point, what is the doctrine of al Qaeda? What is the bottom line doctrine of sunni islam? What is the doctrine of shia islam? All are the same - kill the infidel. (Remembering these are the people who bite the heads off of frogs and eat the beating hearts of rabbits while they are still alive. As pointed out in another thread several month ago.)

 

Our soldiers removed Saddam, Our soldiers helped establish a Democracy and our soldiers have been deployed over and over again. Our soldiers have done enough for this thankless country where politicians feel they need a couple of months off for R&R. If these people do not wish to pursue peace then let them pursue violence amongst themselves, we'll clean up the mess when they are done.

 

Agreed, Petra-OIX.

We've done enough for them already. We now amount to shedding our men and women's blood to prop up an Iraqi leadership that cannot seem to garner the political will to lead.

Let them blow themselves up, let them shoot themselves down, then let them clean up their own mess as well.

We've never had a stake in their country's history anyway, and I don't see why we should be there any longer than necessary.

In the meantime, there's this idiot in Iran. And there's the thin tall murderer we need to catch, or prove dead. Those are the threats.

We have the illegals here at home, and homeboy terrorists.

Iraq ?

Let them learn to stand up for themselves.

They know who those are who are hurting them, let them go after them.

 

What an absurd question. A flaming liberal had to have originated it.

George Bush is in Washington, DC in the White House. The battlefield is 8,000 miles away. President Bush is NOT a battlefield commander, and thus, doesn't know these three missing soldiers personally. (Why is it that brainless liberals seem to think every conservative/military-industrial complex/republican/Christian/fascist individual MUST know EVERY OTHER conservative/military-industrail complex/republican/Christian/fascist individual?!?)

These soldiers were DOING THEIR DUTY. They were apprehended BY THE ENEMY (A note for Liberals: The ENEMY is Al-Queda -- NOT George W. Bush).

On a battlefield, things like this happen. See, it's called WAR. I know liberal, do-gooders don't believe in the concept. Nevertheless, it's a reality.

To blame GWB for the capture of these 3 soldiers makes about as much sense as anything else liberals say.

JDale

 

Maybe they joined Alqada. (sp?)

 

I thought the title to this OP was a joke...unfortunately it's not. I guess if Bush were dropped with his big old Rambo knife into Iraq he may have been able to prevent the kidnappings.

 

I blame J.F.K. for John McCain's Vietnam prisoner of war status. Vietnam had nothing to do with it, it is all Kennedy's fault.

 

Oh yeah, and I hold Jimmuh Carter personally responsible for the Iran hostages. I don't blame Iran, but Jimmuh.

 

FDR wounded my dad which lead to his early demise at age 52;
It wasn't a German hand gernade.

Conspiratorial smilie: :1_grouphug:

 

Martin:

Refresh my memory. I might be wrong.
But what I remember is that Saddam repeatedly made fun of UN efforts to confirm if he did have WMD's.
Bush was led to believe, at that point in time, that Saddam Hussein was in possession of WMD's.
Blair also held to that belief, unless there was a covert collussion between Bush and Blair to attack Iraq on a previously known to them non-existent WMD's as pretext.
The United Nations had a resolution that it needed enforced, and Saddam was running circles around them.
From all appearances, at that time, military action was inevitable, never mind the dancings and gyrating of France, Russia, and all those countries with obvious, known financial benefits from Saddam Hussein.
So Bush led this country to war.
Congress approved it.
The American "people", whoever they are, approved it.
Turns out down the road there were no weapons of mass destruction.
Was that Bush's fault, or was that the fault of faulty intelligence.
You tell us.
The facts are that the US had an intelligence made up of big bellied, out of breath, sluggish, dim witted communities, and I'm not talking of individuals. I'm talking of the system which is a far cry from that which the US had during the cold war when that community was constantly on its toes, kept "physically fit", and well-budgeted.
And then this community also operated under a climate where political correctness prevailed, and the suspect had more rights and privileges and more people championing them than the victims or those they are trying to protect.
If these were not so, then 9/11 could have been avoided, for one.
But, I am digressing.

So, now we are at war.

You tell us.

Do you think this president evilly, cunningly, connivingly, deliberately took this country to war, for whatever intents and purposes other than that he was fed false intelligence on which he based his decisions ?

Personally, I don't think so.