IRAQ - various comments
It occurred to me lately that it really seems that no consideration or comment on the current situation in Iraq at this point can be made without first saying that ‘It was wrong to invade Iraq in the first place!’
In other words, if someone was to ask for an opinion on the circumstances in Iraq, you have to start out by recognizing that it was not a good move in the first place.
At this point, I think that there are not too many people who will maintain that we were right in the decision to Invade. Given the current debates among all those in Congress, those running for President and all the news, military and political pundits; it seems that there are not too many with that view.
Recently President Bush made a speech concerned with announcing the need for additional troops to be sent to Iraq. As a premise for this, he appeared to want to make (at least superficially) some form of acknowledgement that things weren’t going well in Iraq, and somewhat relied on the old “mistakes have been made” format to justify the circumstances.
It occurred to me at the time, that if President Bush really wanted to have a clean slate and the support of the American people that he could have actually gone so far as to state that he considers his actions in Iraq, to have been wrong in the first place; rather than to appear to attempt to play it off as if all the things that were wrong (going wrong) in Iraq, were results of circumstances that were caused by the ‘bad guys.’
With no acknowledgement that if we had not invaded in the first place, the circumstances would not be as they are.
At one point recently he referred to the current circumstances as ‘this war we find ourselves in.’ Again, with no acknowledgement of his initiation of the war itself.
During the State of the Union, he made the statement “This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the fight we're in.”
In other words, if someone was to ask for an opinion on the circumstances in Iraq, you have to start out by recognizing that it was not a good move in the first place.
At this point, I think that there are not too many people who will maintain that we were right in the decision to Invade. Given the current debates among all those in Congress, those running for President and all the news, military and political pundits; it seems that there are not too many with that view.
Recently President Bush made a speech concerned with announcing the need for additional troops to be sent to Iraq. As a premise for this, he appeared to want to make (at least superficially) some form of acknowledgement that things weren’t going well in Iraq, and somewhat relied on the old “mistakes have been made” format to justify the circumstances.
It occurred to me at the time, that if President Bush really wanted to have a clean slate and the support of the American people that he could have actually gone so far as to state that he considers his actions in Iraq, to have been wrong in the first place; rather than to appear to attempt to play it off as if all the things that were wrong (going wrong) in Iraq, were results of circumstances that were caused by the ‘bad guys.’
With no acknowledgement that if we had not invaded in the first place, the circumstances would not be as they are.
At one point recently he referred to the current circumstances as ‘this war we find ourselves in.’ Again, with no acknowledgement of his initiation of the war itself.
During the State of the Union, he made the statement “This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the fight we're in.”
posted by Dave at 10:31 AM
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