Posted by
Joe Voter on Sunday, November 12, 2006 3:18:49 PM
Senator Carl Levin, a Democrat from Michigan, and Senator Joseph Biden, a Democrat from Delaware, appeared on ABC'S "This Week" today. Senator Levin is expected to be the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee in the new Congress. Senator Biden is expected to head the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Senator Levin was quoted as saying, "We need to begin a phased redeployment of forces from Iraq in four to six months." And Senator Biden stated that he would agree with a proposal like that.
But let's put Levin's quote in layman's terms "We need to begin to retreat as fast as we can without the voter's and the world thinking we are cowards so it may take four to six months to get out."
Everyone knows that "redeployment" means "retreat" and that the Democrats know very little about fighting wars. "Retreating" from the Iraq conflict would be very dangerous for many reasons. One it would show the people of Iraq that America won't stay the course, so they will never again trust us. Plus retreating is bad for the moral of the American people and the troops.
I know that many Americans believe that the election results where due to the war in Iraq. I agree but I believe it had more to do with how we are fighting the war. Now is not the time to debate whether or not we should be in Iraq. Now is the time to figure out what is our mission in Iraq and to defeat the enemy. I know many citizens hate the fact that our troops are in harms way. But that is what we pay our troops for, to fight wars, not to just sit around and go to college. Militaries are maintained so that we can have a force to fight. The Democrats need to realize that and let the military hunt down and kill all of our enemies in Iraq and be prepared to go to Korea or Iran next.
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