Additionally, I am not just a soldier with a muds-eye view of the war, I am in Civil Affairs and as such, it is my job to be aware of all the events occurring in this country and specifically in my region.

I have come to the conclusion that we cannot win here [Iraq] for a number of reasons. Ideology and idealism will never trump history and reality.

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We are told that the locals are not upset because we have a hostile, aggressive and angry Army occupying their nation. We are told that they are not upset at the police state we have created, or at the manner of picking their representatives for them. Rather we are told, they are upset because of a handful of terrorists, criminals and dead enders in their midst have made them upset, that and of course the ever convenient straw man of “left wing media bias.”

Ooops. Seems those who were trying to explain reality were right and this defeatist liberal (he called the Iraq war unconstitutional even though Congress authorized it by margins larger than the did for Gulf War I) was dead wrong.

Dean, the Democratic National Chairman, on Monday told a San Antonio, Texas, radio station that the United States appears to be making the same mistakes it made during the Vietnam War, and the idea that the war in Iraq can be won is “just plain wrong.”

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“I do not believe in making the same mistake twice, and America appears to have made the same mistake twice,” Dean said during an interview with WOIA radio, adding that he wished Bush “had paid more attention to the history of Iraq before we had gotten in there.”

Ah, the liberal’s constant search for the next Vietnam. I guess they see it as their mystical Fountain of Youth, something to make them relevant again.

With a US puppet government in Iraq, a western democracy forced on the Iraqis, the slaughter and war crimes committed by western forces and divisive measures in place to ensure civil war are the ingredients of a right wing fundamentalist and imperialist ‘George Bush’ whose ultimate goal is to take a foothold in the ME and spread western style democracy at the expense of the country’s natural resources. The West cannot win the war. They are fighting a new phenomenon both ideologically and militarily and are losing at every turn. The West seeks recognition in life, whilst Muslims seeks martyrdom in death. The fabric of Muslim society is religious cohesiveness whilst the West is political.

Geez, I just don’t recall US guns pointed at the heads of all those Iraqi voters – however I do recall the ones pointed by al-Qaeda snipers on fellow Muslims. I get the feeling this person really admires fascism and the power it can give a select few.

A prominent Democrat in the U.S. Congress says he believes the United States cannot win the war in Iraq because — in his words — “Iraqis have turned against Americans.”

Congressman John Murtha responded to a speech by President Bush on Wednesday. Mr. Murtha said what is going on in Iraq today is not terrorism, but an insurgency. He said only seven percent of the fighters in Iraq are foreign fighters.

Well 7% of the fighters were clearly doing a vast majority of the violence since the areas where al-Qaeda has been purged (because the Iraqis turned against THEM) have now very, very low violence levels.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday the war in Iraq is “lost,” triggering an angry backlash by Republicans who said the top Democrat had turned his back on the troops.

The bleak assessment was the sharpest yet from Reid, who has vowed to send President Bush legislation calling for combat to end next year. Reid said he told Bush on Wednesday that he thought the war could not be won through military force and only through political, economic and diplomatic means.

“I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and – you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows – (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday,” said Reid, D-Nev.

Dems were always enticing the terrorists to massacre because they would use the stories of bloodshed to keep proposing their surrender plans. It was quite a sickening Pavlovian arrangement.