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June 30, 2006
The Democrats' Incoherent War Strategy

Posted by Dorkafork

Could someone help me out with this? Because I fail to see the logic of the Democrats' opposition to amnesty for insurgents.

Sense of the Senate:

(1) The Iraqi government should not grant amnesty to persons who have attacked, killed, or wounded members of the U.S. Armed Forces serving heroically in Iraq to provide all Iraqis a better future.

(2) President Bush should immediately notify the government of Iraq that the United States government opposes granting amnesty in the strongest possible terms.

I can understand wanting justice for the killers of our soldiers, but that has not been the Democrats' policy. They have, up until now, argued that we should pull out and forego that sort of justice. "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" and so on.

The current Democrat position isn't that of a peacemaker. "Let's you and him fight. Hey, did I say stop? Keep fighting." The only logical end I see to the Democrats' varying positions is that the insurgents need to be fought to avenge US soldiers, but US soldiers themselves should not be a part of that fight. The Iraqis should fight our battles for us, but we should not help them fight our battles. There are essentially only two ways Iraq can end up as a stable democracy: kill enough insurgents to effectively neuter them, or make some sort of deal with them. Democrats are opposed to both. Then again, the incoherence comes from assuming the Democrats want Iraq to become a stable democracy.

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I think it's quite consistant-

1) The US may only send troops for military action when it does not directly advance our interests or those of our allies.

2)The US may only withdraw troops from military action when it does not advance our interests or those of our allies.

Posted by: Eric J at June 30, 2006 01:11 PM

It's even simpler. "Whatever the Bush administration is doing, or thinking of doing, oppose it."

Posted by: rbj at June 30, 2006 01:41 PM

Two dorkafork posts in a row?!

I'm getting light-headed.

Posted by: Bill from INDC at June 30, 2006 01:41 PM

It makes perfect sense! It's okay, no, it's desirable to cut and run and waste those lost lives. It's not okay to achieve success if it means we don't get to avenge those lost lives.

/splodey-brain

Posted by: spongeworthy at June 30, 2006 02:14 PM

The Dems keep saying, "We cannot win this militarily," and they're right, although for reasons other than they think - a political solution is needed too.

Anmesty would be part of that political solution, as it often is.

So, of course, they're against it.

Their policy is more than incoherent, it's obtuse, cynical, and opportunistic, and probably a lot of other things too.

Posted by: michaelt at June 30, 2006 02:15 PM

Could be a desperate and misguided attempt to get to the "right" of the administration.

Posted by: Nancy at June 30, 2006 02:21 PM

You mean a political move that's is merely an attempt to make the Democratic party look "Smart. Strong." on national security? Naaaahhhh...

Posted by: dorkafork at June 30, 2006 03:29 PM

You know I hate to be so cynical, but I think it could be.

Posted by: Nancy at June 30, 2006 03:39 PM

You guys are making this too complicated, the Dems policy is to stamp their feet and shout "No!"

Well, and to allow lunatics like this (http://tinyurl.com/osqyq) to destroy any chance they have of getting elected.

Posted by: B Moe at June 30, 2006 05:18 PM

It's standard street talk. Slowly leave the battlefield, but talk shit the whole time you are retreating.

Posted by: Kevin at June 30, 2006 05:55 PM

This is an absolute disgrace. Amnesty has proven highly sucessful in the past, most notably after the Civil War, and is absolutely necessary to resolve the situation in Iraq and expiate the reduction of American forces. The Dems attack on it not only contradicts their entire platform (assuming such a thing even exists), but is utterly cynical. They know that most Americans won't like granting
Amnesty to people that have killed American troops and are determine to milk that for all they can, regardless of the effect on the war effort. They demonstrate not only why the cannot be trusted on foreign policy, but also reveal themselves to be little more than a junta of morally bankrupt and opportunistic demagouges.

Posted by: Jason at June 30, 2006 07:48 PM

It makes perfect sense to for the Dems to adopt this policy. Look at it this way,

1) The majority of the Dems have been against the war in Iraq from the beginning - even though they voted for it.

2) Ever since we defeated Saddam's forces in the field and began the longer struggle to stamp out the insurgency and build a democracy in Iraq they've been shouting we'd fail (or we'd already failed).

3) With each successive election in Iraq the Dem leadership became even more shrill, and more insistent that we withdraw from Iraq since, according to them, we could never win in Iraq.

4) In the past few months as Iraq sat on the precipice of a civil war between the Sunnis, Shia, and Kurds, the Dems demanded publicly that we withdraw from Iraq since it was on the verge of a civil war and we couldn't win in Iraq and it's a waste of American lives to remain.

What's happened since then? The Iraqi Government filled its last remaining openings, Zarqawi was killed, US and Iraqi forces made major gains against the insurgents from data captured at Zarqawi's safe house, documents were released showing Saddam had large stockpiles of Chem weapons, and two separate Democratic resolutions to set a time table for troop withdrawals were shot down by large margins in the Senate.

We've reached a real tipping point in Iraq. It's becoming clear that it's the insurgents who can't win in Iraq as more and more provinces are being turned over to Iraqi forces to police. The terrorists and insurgents are fighting each other as well as the Iraqi government, and while the leadership of those organizations is in shambles the Iraqi government is becoming more cohesive and effective. Recently leaked information on the U.S. military bringing equipment home is a sign that we've on the cusp of major troop withdrawals. ones that aren't based on JFK's or Murtha's "We Can't Win" redeployment proposals.

So it should come as no surprise that the Dems oppose amnesty and want us to remain in a low-yield conflict, because the one thing the Dems really fear is that we will be successful in Iraq and that success will reflect back positively on Bush. They have a three year investment in telling anyone who would listen that the invasion was a mistake and we could never win, so the anything that might increase the odds that we actually will win - like an amnesty offer that would gut the insurgent forces and further isolate Al Qaeda in Iraq, must be opposed.

Posted by: Robert Modean at June 30, 2006 08:53 PM

Democrats oppose amnesty because the ungrateful Sunni insurgents demanded that US troops leave in two years instead of the 18 months that is Democrat policy.

Posted by: Robin Roberts at June 30, 2006 10:15 PM

What I don't understand is the clause offering "in state tuition rates" to foreign insurgents.

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