Post #69

Subject: Patience is a virtue

I am sorry, Mr. President, George W. Bush, I have no more patience. Oh, I know you haven’t asked anything of me except patience. There have been no calls from the White House to grow Victory Gardens. There has been no overtime for factories that build HumVees. No rationing gas, no ban on overseas travel, no draft. But four years is enough.

Why, then, am I out of patience? It’s simple really: I don’t know what to be patient about. Like most Americans, I want to “win” – please tell me, tho, what “winning” means.

When Berlin fell, I knew we had beaten Germany in WW II. Japan signed a surrender. Even the Cold War was based on the idea of the Soviet Union ending. Um, Iraq?

Senator Jos Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, have offered legislation to repeal the 2002 “blank check” and replace it with a much narrower and achievable mission for our troops in Iraq. Visit http://www.EndingTheWar.com and read the bill. Maybe then you’ll understand why you have failed as a war leader.

Joe Biden said in an e-mail, “Just as important, as we transition the mission and draw down our forces, our bill requires the President to pursue a comprehensive political, diplomatic and economic strategy in Iraq to secure a political settlement. That's exactly what the Biden-Gelb plan offers.” http://www.PlanForIraq.com “In short, what I'm proposing is a plan to end the war in Iraq without leaving a mess behind. What the President proposes is no end in sight.”

You want patience… for what, Mr. Bush, for what? I’d be willing to forgive the sneaky way you got us into this mess and the ways you’ve mishandle nearly every step along the way, if only….