FirmhandKY -> RE: Most Admired Man in World 2007: GW Bush (12/31/2007 10:44:08 PM)
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ORIGINAL: farglebargle The END of my Claims, is: "Since you fucked up, FHKY, In assessing the surge BEFORE it happened, and you're so IGNORANT of the issue that you don't even know the controlling Law, why should anyone give credibility to anything you say?" Hmmm, please ... take your time, and do some searching on the forums ... tell me where I was "assessing the surge BEFORE it happened"? You seem to be saying that somewhere, I discussed the surge before it occurred and said that it would undoubtedly succeed in accordance with all the parameters written into a (now defunct) law? I'm fairly confident that your search will come up blank. If you want my opinion, the surge - as an overall indication of the US's likelihood of remaining active in Iraq - was one of the factors that has contributed to the lowering of violence there. Certainly not the only one. And likely in a different manner than you wish to assume I mean. You have always been caught up in legalistic definitions and defenses to support your point of view, without really having that much understanding of law, society or politics in general, much less the methods and requirements needed to wage an effective war. This is very much like the argument about the title of this thread. Yup, I intentionally set it up to get a rise out of the BDS crowd. But ... the title is indeed accurate ... as far as it goes. But, as dcnovice has so well pointed out, it doesn't go far enough. You (and many other suffers of BDS) try the same logic when it comes to the war. Many of your arguments, taken by themselves, have some level of truth to them. But, overall they fail to accurately portray reality, much as the title to this thread is absolutely "correct", yet absolutely "wrong" at the same time. Firm Another interesting thread I'm debating starting is one on the responsibility of the Democratic "antiwar" side of the house, for the casualties that they wish to lay on the "pro-war" side of the house. How many American and Iraq lives would have been saved if Harry Reid and the rest of the Dem party had said 4 years ago "We ain't leaving til the scumbags are all dead or gone."? Specifically, the escalation of violence during the last two national campaigns ... especially the 2006 Presidential campaign ... if the candidates had left no doubt in the minds of the aggressers in Iraq that a change in Administrations wouldn't have meant a change in overall American resolve to see the battle to a successful conclusion. Personally, I think Harry Reid's "The war is lost" comment cost at least a couple of hundred American lives, and thousands of Iraqi lives.
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