Re: Of course, Bush could take George Aiken's advice

In article <dlu98501g9o@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Joe S. <anon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>President Bush should take advice from a Vietnam-era Republican senator:
>Declare a victory in Iraq and get out.
>
>The late Sen. George Aiken, R-Vt., gave that counsel to both Presidents
>Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon when things were going from bad to
>worse in the Vietnam War, but they ignored him.
>
>Both presidents would have looked better in the history books had they
>listened to the venerable senator. But, then, neither wanted to be seen as
>retreating or losing a war -- neither of them used the phrase "cut and
>run" -- but that's what they were afraid of.
>
>Bush could legitimately declare that we won. After all, the three reasons
>for going to war in Iraq were:
>
>-- Destroy the WMD; we now know there were no WMD, so, that one is solved.
>
>-- Break the Saddam-Al-Qaeda links; ditto -- no links, case closed.
>
>-- Get rid of Saddam Hussein; he's in jail.
>
>So, we did everything we set out to do -- which is the definition of
>victory.
>
>Case closed -- we won, we're out of here.

Unfortunately the oil mob isn't buying that.

Hohensee-Feingold is the fastest responsible way out of Iraq.


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