Bush's Shrinking Safety Zone

[glatt]

Urbane, you talk as if we haven't already lost the war.

It may be an uncomfortable truth, and one you don't want to admit, but that doesn't change it. Look at basic facts. Our troops live on a heavily fortified base. When we leave the base we are attacked. We go out into Iraq, perform a mission, and then return to the base to sleep. When we return to the base, it's as if we hadn't gone out into the country at all, because the insurgency comes right back as soon as we leave. We have no long term impact on the situation outside the base. If we were making progress, it would be a different story. Please point to any progress we have made in Iraq.

I know you are afraid to admit it, but we lost this one. The longer we take to admit what is obvious, the more troops will die. The more men will come home on gurneys to shattered lives. How many lives would you destroy for nothing?

The timing of the Democrats is horrible. They should have opposed this war before it started. They were spineless wimps for not standing up to Bush back then. But it's better late than never.