People Suffered For Their Gain

Regardless of your position on Iraq, we all can agree that the course wasn't working. And let's forget the current argument of leave or stay and focus on win or lose. We have heard that President Bush and the Republicans were for winning in Iraq, but did they stay a failed course for political reasons?

All we have heard since President Bush took office was, "You know where he stands" and "He is steadfast in his vision", it won the 2004 election for him. But now, since Tuesday, he has decided to change course? The rock of steadfast has buckled to of all things, public opinion? And it's not just him. The Army is saying it is drawing up NEW plans, and they are "Scrubbing" everything that went right and everything that went wrong. Hmm, am I the only one thinking that this should have been being done already?

So what is the reason? Are we sadly realizing, or confirming for some, that the last 3 years of failure after failure could have prevented if they were not hell bent on "Staying the course"? And instead of calling anyone who questioned their course, cut-n-runners and unpatriotic, or forcing generals into retirement, shouldn't they have done this before now? And the political answer is, of course not. They would have lost the 2004 election. And since then, they have done everything for political reasons. Mark Foley comes to mind. It's never been about America, well not the America most of us live in.

This war has been nothing more than a political tool and a money maker for the element of the Right, led by George Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, etc.... And because of it, Iraq and it's citizens, Americans and our TROOPS have been mislead, used and abused to fill the pockets of our leaders and the Haliburton's of the world.