By now everyone should be sick to death of hearing how we are winning in Iraq. After 5 years, 3 trillion dollars,and around a million casualties we are no closer to achieving anything resembling lasting peace in Iraq and the Republicans know it. We should have never taken our aim off of chasing terrorists through the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan to embark on a pointless campaign for oil and they know that too.
Now I have talked with enough blind and dumb as shit war supporters to never want to do so again. However on the plus side this exposure has led to me deciphering the “Republican Surge is Working Argument Flowchart” which I am sharing with you today. I have included the surge and two common arguments so you can see how it works, but its the same regardless of specifics. In fact I would say it applies to every argument you will ever have with a conservative.
Enjoy and feel free to use or modify this.
I see the war on terror, including the Iraqi front, as necessary to put radical millitant islamist on the run. If we didn’t go on the offensive in these terrorist, supporting nations, they would become stronger and more united. They would more quickly develop weapons of mass destruction that could be smuggled in the U.S. By building a free and safer Iraq, we are in effect putting pressure on neighboring countries to put away radical islam and pursue freedom. I think we are winning, the surge has worked. The liberals first complained about security in Iraq and when they saw the surge producing results, they changed their complaint to there is no government unity. So I find that a little dishonest. Since it seems they are making excuses. They really don’t want us to win. And by losing they were hoping to make political gain with congressional seats and the presidency. That is how I read the politics of it.
By what measure would you claim that the surge is a success? The reason for the surge according to our commander in chief was to give the Iraqi government a chance to get their shit together. They haven’t done that therefore the surge cannot be a success.
The peace you so proudly claim credit for is more the result of local politics and American bribes as anything the surge could have done. This peace will last only as long as the many tribes and militias in Iraq want it to. But you still buy the lies about Al Qaeda and WMDs in Iraq so I wont waste my time talking to you.