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Originally Posted by nuksaa
The American death toll has been the trumpet and drum for the Democrats this entire time. The same agenda Sheehan brought to life is to push the Iraq war = Vietnam agenda. Most Americans can only remember the death toll from that war. Strange how the news reports over the TV continue to report the number of people who have been dying in these car bombs are Iraqi and not Americans. Equally strange is the Dems you have been heralding for their majority in Congress only talks about bringing US troops home and provides little as to the way of any long term strategy towards resolving anything in Iraq.
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Strangely enough I agree with most of your response there. Of course one thing you must admit is that from the current repubs perspective, there is no resolution out there.
The only way to fix Iraq is to involve it's neighbors - something the bush admin abhors doing. To do so would lose face, and make bush look very weak, having to turn to a member of the 'axis of evil' to fix Iraq.
That being said, this is an election season. While the dems might want to involve Iran and consult with them diplomatically, the repubs are bound to jump on that and then claim they were siding up with of course 'the axis of evil' and once again the flag waving repubs will try and take the presidency claiming the dems are soft on terrorism.
So right now there is a stalemate - you have the repubs who won't fix it as they can't without losing the faith of their base, and the dems who won't touch it till after the elections as they know the repubs will turn it into a political football if they try and actually fix the problem with the only solutions available.
As I said, the status quo will stay the same until after the 2008 elections. Bush won't fix anything - the 'troop surge' will fail, billions more will be pissed down a bottomless pit, more body bags will by flown home - and until there is a new president, no one will actually try and fix this mess - do now to American politics more than Iraqi politics.