Are we really ?winning” in Iraq as some say?
Will someone please tell John McCain there is no winning in Iraq? I was an Iraq war protester before we went in. I was also a supporter of the surge. The surge has been successful, allowing us to avoid Total & Complete Disaster (although I am sure there are those living in Iraq ? what is it, 50-percent have lost a loved one? ? who consider the current state of affairs and the past five years disaster enough).
But to refer to the success of the surge as “winning” in Iraq? There can be no winning in Iraq. Iraq was an unjustified invasion of another country who posed no threat. The decision to invade was based not on dis-information, as we are finding out, but on out-and-out lies. A forged document that has been described as an “obvious” forgery? (one that could not possibly have been mistaken for real by the intelligence community). Please.
We (the citizenry, the media, even Congress) have been strong-armed by a bullying administration into invading another country for no other reason than that certain people in our administration didn”t like that country”s leader. The invasion of Iraq is a travesty. A travesty of justice; a travesty of lives lost (American and Iraqi). Thank God the surge has been successful, and we have avoided total and complete disaster. But Iraq is a loss. A loss of lives. A loss of standing in the international community. A loss of trust for their government from the American people. There can be no winning in Iraq.
Renee Nutcher
Lakeport
