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2007-06-27 Home Front: WoT

Statement of Chairman Lantos at hearing, "Iraq: Is the Escalation Working?"

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Posted by Sherry 2007-06-27 17:38|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 It's all about WILL. The American leadership is reflecting the American people, and we do not have the WILL to win. Leadership is following, though, and not leading. We SHOULD have the will, and would, if leadership would properly show the people what is at stake, and why we should fight this evil. We will either fight it or fall to it, sooner or later. Now is definitely 'easier' than later. There is really little difference between now and 1938.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-27 18:07|| 2007-06-27 18:07|| Front Page Top

#2 What a joke our 'leadership' is. The actual 'surge' just began after months of preparing the battlefield. It took months, nay years, to prepare the 'surge' at Normandy. Although the American lead allied forces secured a beachhead in Normandy, it utterly failed to penetrate deep into the region spending its manpower and effort in a bocage to bocage fight falling way behind anticipated schedule. You could so easily write this same crap at D +30 in 1944.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-06-27 18:17|| 2007-06-27 18:17|| Front Page Top

#3 The party of cut and run. Tom Lantos is a spittle flinging fool most of the time.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-06-27 18:18|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com] 2007-06-27 18:18|| Front Page Top

#4 bin Laden can still pull this one out thanks to his allies in the Democrat party. Reid, Murta, Pelosi and Lantos are going to return Neville Chamberlain to his otherwise deserved obscurity in history. Or perhaps they're just planning to outdo Quisling

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-06-27 18:27|| 2007-06-27 18:27|| Front Page Top

#5 He thinks that if we surge and press the enemy harder, that effort should be accompanied by immediately lower US casualties. Makes no sense.

While I'm not much interested in the forecasts of Professors of Economics, I can agree that we should discount the 'sunk costs' and stay the course while Iraq continues to build their military. They simply don't have enough trained soldiers as yet, and to leave early would be disastrous and a true waste of the sunk costs he's discounting.

Posted by KBK 2007-06-27 19:36|| 2007-06-27 19:36|| Front Page Top

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