While it was kicked off by Murtha, both sides on the “pull out of Iraq” debate continue to annoy me.\u00c2\u00a0 This was probably spawned by some talkback radio idiocy on KDKA this afternoon, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been bouncing around in the back of my mind for a while.<\/p>\n
On the right, we have the dumbasses who can’t tell the difference between a withdrawal and surrender.\u00c2\u00a0 Surrender implies meeting some sort of terms and actually being defeated – neither of which is the case.\u00c2\u00a0 Withdrawal is a slow and staged process of removing yourself in a calm and coordinated manner.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, we managed to withdraw after Desert Storm and I’ve yet to see anyone suggest that we surrendered to Saddam in ’91.<\/p>\n
On the left, we have dipshits who still persist in the “Bush lied, people died” bullshit.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s been done to death so many times it’s just stupid to hear it over again.\u00c2\u00a0 While I happen to disagree with his reaction to the intel, the fact is the intel was flawed.\u00c2\u00a0 Seriously flawed.<\/p>\n
Then we have the retards on the right who claim that criticism of a President is anti-American.\u00c2\u00a0 Sorry – but that’s plain wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 Exercising freedom of speech is absolutely American and should be cherished, even if they are being idiots in their suggestions.\u00c2\u00a0 Questioning someone’s patriotism when they simply have alternate political views is about as anti-American as you can get.<\/p>\n
And lastly we have the numbnuts on the left who think “withdrawal” means “get the hell out tomorrow”.\u00c2\u00a0 Sorry – but that really is a stupid idea.\u00c2\u00a0 Power vacuums lead to bad governments.\u00c2\u00a0 You *have* to pull out in an organized and gradual fashion.<\/p>\n
Yes, it’s time to leave.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, Iraqis don’t want Americans there any more.\u00c2\u00a0 No, we can’t and shouldn’t do it quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While it was kicked off by Murtha, both sides on the “pull out of Iraq” debate continue to annoy me.\u00c2\u00a0 This was probably spawned by some talkback radio idiocy on KDKA this afternoon, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been bouncing around in the back of my mind for a while. On the right, we have the dumbasses who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}