It Is Better To Cut & Run Than Stay & Die...

[Repo]

George W. Bush says of the Democratic Party, "They are the party of cut and run." We hear it all the time on television and radio. We see it in print or on the Web from Republicans. Any Democrat that has an opposing view on the Bush gang's "Stay the course," Iraq strategy is called out for wanting to "cut and run." It may make for a nice sound bite but one has to question the Republicans' morals; there is something wrong anyone that would rather have American soldiers die in Iraq endlessly when they could easily leave immediately, saving hundreds or thousands of American soldiers from death or serious injury. You don't stay the course into the middle of a hurricane, you turn the ship and get out of it but just like the Bush Administration couldn't figure out what to do after Hurricane Katrina hit, the same blundering administration doesn't know what to do now that the Iraq civil war has hit. Stay the course is a failed idea. It is not a plan but an idea and a failed idea at that. All the factions in Iraq are vying for power. American soldiers are nothing more than tools for the ruling Shiites and targets for both the Shiites and Sunnis. Many of the police trained by American forces are loyal to one side or the other not for a true democratic government. Keeping American troops in Iraq is sentencing them to death. Iraq is in a civil war and the sooner the American forces leave the better it is for the soldiers and America. It is better to cut and run than stay and die...

Now many of the Bush Administration are under the false impression that leaving Iraq now would put the whole region in chaos, especially leaving Israel vulnerable. That is completely wrong. Pulling American troops out of Iraq entirely would actually stabilize the region and be in in Israel's best interest. The Middle East is mostly made up of Muslim countries but those countries are split between Shiite Muslims and Sunni Muslims, not unlike Iraq itself. Iraq is already in a civil war. If the United States pulled out of Iraq the Shiites and the Sunnis would shift their aim from Americans to more of each other than they already are aiming at. The violence between them will increase but that would have some positive affects. Since Iran already supports the Iraqi Shiites they would get more involved. That would make some of the Sunni countries like Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia get involved. There is a likely chance that refugees would flood Iran and Syria hurting their economies. If Iran gets stuck fighting in Iraq against the Sunnis, there is less of a chance that they threaten Israel. Right now the United States is stuck in an Iraqi quagmire. Once the United States pulls out of Iraq, it will be Iran that gets stuck in the Iraqi quagmire. Iraq's civil war will last a long time and keep Iran bogged down for years, which is a good thing...

The Democrats may be "The party of cut and run," but the Republican Party is certainly the party of stay and die. Just like they left Americans to die in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Republicans are now willing to let Americans stay and die in Iraq. The American military is the best fighting machine in the world but no military can win when they are in the middle of another country's civil war. The American soldiers are nothing more than targets so stay the course just plain makes no sense but neither does Bush, Cheney or Rumsfeld...