Reply #28: So civil war ... [View All]

[MrPrax]

generally means failure...but of course a lot of that sectarian violence is directed at the foreign occupation and DOES include the General's own troops which is an active participant in said 'civil war' violence.

So like Afghanistan, the US can only hold the capital city, spew propaganda and get Americans to forget even the most basic goals of stability have not even been met.

Why are there sitting democrats that are still treating the vague outlines of the Bush 'war on terror' with even this level of respect? It's been an unmitigated failure on any level, including the 'oil' conspiracy angel as the US even failed to keep the oil flowing, haven't built a damn thing except bases they are hiding in, killed scores of Iraqis, haven't stablized a single region, etc etc.

Why Bush is not being held to his own standards by democrats who still prefer to nibble at the edges is quite astonishing, really. At this point the democrats shouldn't be offering any solutions, but should be attacking relentlessly on what the GOP has ALREADY placed before the American people.