Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>
> > So where do you get off claiming that politics must
> > stop? Is it then unpatriotic to criticize Bush, for
> > the next
> > few years of the occupation?
<major snip--writing more does NOT mean you are right : ) >
> As for what war - Al Qaeda and its various allies are
> not still out there, trying to reconstitute themselves
> and launch further, and worse, attacks on us. The war
> is over when that isn't true any more. Iraq wasn't a
> war any more than Operation Torch was in 1942. Iraq
> was a campaign - and even the campaign isn't over yet.
> The war has barely begun. We are, at most, at the
> end of the beginning.
So you want everyone to "stand behind the President
out of patriotism" for YEARS, while he continues to throw
our military might around on the pretext of stopping terrorism?
Since his actions are producing the conditions for
MORE terrorism rather than less, this is asking a bit much.
THERE IS NO WAR ON TERROR. The United States has fewer than
10000 casualities, civilian and military, since September 2001
or whenever. Sorry, but we have not been hurt enough to
justify treating this as a war. Having Bush call it a war
does not make it one.
---David
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