Say No to 50 Years in Iraq
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY e-mailed me and asked if I could write a letter to the editor about the Resident’s plan for a 50 year or more deployment in IRAQ and the support it has been getting from across the field of imperial wann-a-bes known collectively as the REPUBLICAN presidential candidates. I was glad to oblige. Since I just had a missive printed in the NORTHWEST HERALD, my usual outlet for such letters, I sent this one to the DAILY HERALD. I urge any of you to use the handy tool on the Party web site and send your own letters.
To the Editor--
Gee, it’s been so swell hanging around the Korean Peninsula for 50 plus years and waiting for a war to break out, that the President and his brain trust think it would be just peachy if we could do the same thing in Iraq.
Never mind that there will be no “truce line” to separate us from our potential enemies. They’ll be mixed up higgly-piggly with the local population just out side the gates of the massive bases this scheme envisions.
Never mind that there will be no government on the other side, not even one run by a crack-pot family dynasty a la North Korea, with which to negotiate if problems arise and things get dicey.
Never mind that that there likely will not even be an allied government that wants them to stay. Right now a majority of the Iraqi parliament wants to revoke the UN mandate under which the U.S. occupation is conducted and set an absolute deadline for our withdrawal from the country.
Never mind the overwhelming majority of the American people want this insanity over and done with NOW.
Senator John McCain says the President’s idea is just fine with him. The other contenders for the Republican nomination, even those who stare at their shoes when the unpopular president is mentioned, agree.
Want to stop this? Make sure a Democrat is elected our next president. Senator Obama is my first choice, but any of the leading contenders would put the breaks on this bit of hubris in short order.
Patrick Murfin,
Crystal Lake, Illinois