Post #70

Subject: Patience is a virtue, Pt.. II

As I said in my Post #69, “I don’t know what to be patient about.” Like most Americans, I want to “win” – please tell me, tho, what “winning” means. Since George W. Bush can not define “winning,” I’m thinking like Joe Biden – “winning” is “ending this war without leaving chaos behind.”

As I said in my Post #69, “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 [Bush] have failed as a war leader.” The binding bill requires that the President:

1. Transition our forces now to a new, more limited mission of training Iraqis and denying terrorists a safe haven in Iraq. Um, that’s Al-Qaeda, Mr. Bush – remember them? They fly planes into buildings. They are also already in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
2. Begin the phased redeployment of our forces from Iraq within four month.
3. Complete the withdrawal of our combat forces by March, 2008, except for a limited number necessary to carry out the limited mission.

You, Mr. President, George W. Bush, have no clue. Your indignation over the House bill passed today just shows that you have not even read the bill. Your catch phrases, your slogans, your inability to define what we are fighting for or even who we are fighting, you and your Iraq war are giving aid and comfort to the enemy. No, sir, I have no more patience.