Comments on: President Bush and Iraq: Kicking the Can Down the Road to 2009 http://themoderatevoice.com/15197/kicking-the-can-down-the-road-to-2009/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Mon, 28 May 2012 02:02:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: domajot http://themoderatevoice.com/15197/kicking-the-can-down-the-road-to-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-98889 domajot Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:56:13 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/2008-elections/15197/kicking-the-can-down-the-road-to-2009/#comment-98889 The way I see it, the most dangerous content in the kicked can is the permanent secutiry arrangement Bush is seeking to sign with Iraq. It will make it very difficult for the next administration to reassess the advisability and troop levels according to unkonwn conditions of the future. In the meantime it's an annoucement to the Arabs that we'll be there as occupiers permanently. The comparisons to Korea and Europe are false comparisons, as we made no promises in the midst of a civil war and without knowing what the future governement would be like. Whether keeping some troops in Iraq iis a good or a bad idea is a separate debate. The fact of making a formal agreement now, in the midst of turmoil is the problem. His locking in of future administrations is unconscionable, IMO. Come to think of it, I don't know why anyone would want to be the next president and have to pick up the can kicked to him. We have some brave souls out there campaigning, either brave or overconfident. The way I see it, the most dangerous content in the kicked can is the permanent secutiry arrangement Bush is seeking to sign with Iraq. It will make it very difficult for the next administration to reassess the advisability and troop levels according to unkonwn conditions of the future.

In the meantime it’s an annoucement to the Arabs that we’ll be there as occupiers permanently. The comparisons to Korea and Europe are false comparisons, as we made no promises in the midst of a civil war and without knowing what the future governement would be like.

Whether keeping some troops in Iraq iis a good or a bad idea is a separate debate. The fact of making a formal agreement now, in the midst of turmoil is the problem. His locking in of future administrations is unconscionable, IMO.

Come to think of it, I don’t know why anyone would want to be the next president and have to pick up the can kicked to him. We have some brave souls out there campaigning, either brave or overconfident.

]]> By: JSpencer http://themoderatevoice.com/15197/kicking-the-can-down-the-road-to-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-98883 JSpencer Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:12:50 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/2008-elections/15197/kicking-the-can-down-the-road-to-2009/#comment-98883 Kicking the can down the road is right. Let's see, get a bunch of your clueless, sociopathic buddies together, start an unnecessary war based on false pretenses, drag the entire country and part of the world into it, turn it into a classic quagmire - all the while misrepresenting and denying the realities involved, and then drag it out, killing untold thousands, spending hundreds of billions of dollars, and in the end leave it for someone else to try and clean up the mess. And oh yeah, forget about that little accountability thing. Ahhh What a country! And the citizenry here? Let's just say the founding fathers would never have believed anyone could have the luck to inherit the keys to such a nation, such a government as this - only to willingly turn them over to the worst kind of mercenaries. Sorry, but my back hurts tonight, and that just kind of takes the pretty talk right out of me. Kicking the can down the road is right. Let’s see, get a bunch of your clueless, sociopathic buddies together, start an unnecessary war based on false pretenses, drag the entire country and part of the world into it, turn it into a classic quagmire – all the while misrepresenting and denying the realities involved, and then drag it out, killing untold thousands, spending hundreds of billions of dollars, and in the end leave it for someone else to try and clean up the mess. And oh yeah, forget about that little accountability thing. Ahhh What a country! And the citizenry here? Let’s just say the founding fathers would never have believed anyone could have the luck to inherit the keys to such a nation, such a government as this – only to willingly turn them over to the worst kind of mercenaries. Sorry, but my back hurts tonight, and that just kind of takes the pretty talk right out of me.

]]> By: Sam http://themoderatevoice.com/15197/kicking-the-can-down-the-road-to-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-98871 Sam Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:45:41 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/2008-elections/15197/kicking-the-can-down-the-road-to-2009/#comment-98871 And we'll be out of Iraq just as fast as if they protested, wrote their representatives, and promised to clear all the brush from Crawford TX themselves. Basicaly, when we have a new president. And we’ll be out of Iraq just as fast as if they protested, wrote their representatives, and promised to clear all the brush from Crawford TX themselves. Basicaly, when we have a new president.

]]> By: Shaun Mullen http://themoderatevoice.com/15197/kicking-the-can-down-the-road-to-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-98860 Shaun Mullen Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:25:06 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/2008-elections/15197/kicking-the-can-down-the-road-to-2009/#comment-98860 <em>Sam:</em> Shopping for bargains on HDTVs while fighting off having their homes foreclosed on. Sam:

Shopping for bargains on HDTVs while fighting off having their homes foreclosed on.

]]> By: Sam http://themoderatevoice.com/15197/kicking-the-can-down-the-road-to-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-98831 Sam Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:14:55 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/2008-elections/15197/kicking-the-can-down-the-road-to-2009/#comment-98831 So what is that first grp supposed to do to get the troops home? The president isn't going to bend and we can't simply cut funds and withdraw immediately. Not only would that be political suicide but its also extremely bad for Iraq and its people. With that in mind, what are the "poor dears" supposed to be doing? So what is that first grp supposed to do to get the troops home? The president isn’t going to bend and we can’t simply cut funds and withdraw immediately. Not only would that be political suicide but its also extremely bad for Iraq and its people. With that in mind, what are the “poor dears” supposed to be doing?

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