stick it out

I’m going to keep saying this until the surrender monkeys are all quiet - retreating from Iraq on a timetable is about as intelligent as cutting off your head because you have a pounding headache.

The current political climate in this country is a foul one. We have a poorly thought out and poorly managed war to win, but that isn’t how the conversation is being framed. Instead of debating what we could do better, we’re debating which day we should pack up our bags and leave. The conversation is wasted on sound bites declaring all the reasons why Americans should no longer be involved in Iraq.

Imagine a cook in the kitchen preparing a meal. Halfway through the process, the cook suddenly decides the meal isn’t turning out as expected, and so the meal is abandoned. Later, the kitchen goes up in flame. Who should the cook blame?

Maybe it’s just a case of too many chefs and not enough cooks.

Either way, a lot of Iraqis are dying, some Americans are dying and Congress is, as usual, arguing like a bunch of children.

If they put all the energy into cleaning up corruption that they put into flinging verbal feces, the war would cost us half of what it has been costing. Of course, since Congress is the source of most of the corruption to begin with, that might be a tough cake to bake.

Meanwhile, the showboating and empty rhetoric continue:

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed Thursday that Congress repeal the authority it gave President George W. Bush in 2002 to invade Iraq, injecting presidential politics into the congressional debate over financing the war.

Does Hillary Clinton care about American soldiers? Of course not. Does she care about helping Iraq become a peaceful, prosperous nation? Not one whit. What does Hillary Rodham Clinton care about? Her own power. She likes being in charge. It’s really that simple.

Mostly, Clinton appeared to be trying to claim a new leadership position among the Democratic presidential candidates against the war in Iraq.

I don’t care if I’m the last person in America who thinks we should stay in Iraq until the Iraqi government asks us to leave, I’m sticking to my guns. Our government made promises on our behalf, and we need to keep those promises. The anti-war crowd should have spoken more loudly before the war started.