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Originally Posted by Smitty0311
What did bush do wrong in iraq? What did the democrats propose before he made these actions. The answer is nothing! If anything staying the course was in no way shape or form a political gain for the republicans! Winning the war is the presedents objective. it is the liberals who campain agensts the chances of winning without a proposal of victory. This politicaly driven war you speak of started with the support of democrats and republicans. No troops die as a result of republican support for the war. No enemy is praying to allah for the republicans to get elected to office. It is the exact opposite. The liberals are praised by the terrorists not the republicans! You say you dont think that the media in iraq is over exagerated? I know it is. I served in the capitol of the al anbar provence and i have seen nothing to the likes of what is reported in the news. Nor has my fellow marines who have served all over iraq. The liberals will not support any plan for this war and they will put all their chips in the failure section of the roulett table. They have no plan yet they critisize bushes plan. There is nothing that a liberal has done to improve the situation in iraq. However they have managed to give a sence of victory to our enemys!
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Had the administration altered the course early on, that would have been admitting they had made mistakes, jeopardizing their control of congress or even the 2004 election.
It seems obvious to me that following the democratic victory in 2006,they knew their chance to advance their agenda was lost, so they decided to focus on winning the war. By that time, the insurgency had become more powerful, the sectarian violence had increased and Al Sadr had fully entrenched himself as the real power in Iraq.
21,500 additional troops seems like too little, too late. Maybe 50,000 in 2004 might have allowed us to turn the corner. GWB would have never allowed that to happen, that would be admitting a mistake.
It's all a matter of perspective Smitty, our enemies see us a weak because GWB didn't want to fight this war the way it should have been fought.