seattle.politics

Charlie Wilkes wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:51:44 -0700, Rudy Canoza wrote:
>> Honor, like patriotism, is the refuge of scoundrels who never had any.
>> Huckabee dishonors the nation with his filthy "stay the course" message.
>> There is no legitimate course to be stayed. The war was lost before it
>> was begun, and we're now throwing good money, and good lives, after
>> wasted resources. Get out now.
>
> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:51:44 -0700, Rudy Canoza wrote:
>
>
>> Honor, like patriotism, is the refuge of scoundrels who never had any.
>> Huckabee dishonors the nation with his filthy "stay the course" message.
>> There is no legitimate course to be stayed. The war was lost before it
>> was begun, and we're now throwing good money, and good lives, after
>> wasted resources. Get out now.
>
> It's not that simple. Except for right-wing freaks on Usenet and .
> radio, both Republicans and Democrats largely understand that the
> situation in Iraq is a quagmire and that . interests have been harmed
> because of it. But many in both parties also believe that .
> withdrawal now will lead to a humanitarian catastrophe much bigger than
> what has been going on in Iraq thus far, and the . can't afford to
> have that stain on its hands.

But we don't know there will be a humanitarian catastrophe, and, if it
does happen that way, we can go back in even easier than we went in the
first two times.