General Sir Michael Rose: U.S. and Britain Should Admit Defeat and Leave Iraq

The Guardian

General Sir Michael Rose told the BBC's Newsnight programme: "It is the soldiers who have been telling me from the frontline that the war they have been fighting is a hopeless war, that they cannot possibly win it and the sooner we start talking politics and not military solutions, the sooner they will come home and their lives will be preserved."

When he was asked if he thought the Iraqi insurgents were right to try to force the US-led coalition out, he replied: "Yes I do. As Lord Chatham [the politician William Pitt, the Elder, who, in the second half of the 18th century called for a cessation of hostilities in the colonies and favoured American resistance to the British Stamp Act] said, 'if I was an American - as I am an Englishman - as long as one Englishman remained on American native soil, I would never, never, never lay down my arms'. The Iraqi insurgents feel exactly the same way. I don't excuse them for some of the terrible things they do, but I do understand why they are resisting the Americans."

   I would guess that General Rose just about says it all in this piece. He also goes on to say that the U.S. and the British should admit defeat and leave before more troops are killed.

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Iraq Parliament Vacationing While Our Troops Get Killed?

  It looks as if our GOP and Democratic lawmakers can agree on at least one thing, that being the Iraqi Parliaments decision to take a two month recess while our United States troops get killed trying to bring some sense of order to their own country. If this isn't a slap in the face of our military, then there is no such thing!

Rep. Chris Shays, R-CT: "If they go off on vacation for two months while our troops fight -- that would be the outrage of outrages."

   This would mean that there would be more than likely no oil bill resolution from the Iraqi government and a host of other things.

Sen. John Warner, R-VA.: "That is not acceptable.An action of that consequence would send a very bad signal to the world that they don't have the resolve that matches the resolve of the brave troops that are fighting in the battle today."

Sen. Ben Nelson, D-NE: "I certainly hope they're not going to take any sort of recess when the question is whether they're going to make any progress."

On Monday -- the same day Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Missouri, issued a statement urging the Iraqi politicians to reconsider their summer break -- the Iraqi parliament called for a ban on U.S. troops near a holy Shiite Muslim shrine. Protests were led by the radical anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's bloc after U.S. and Iraqi troops conducted a raid near the shrine.        CNN

  This shit gets worse by the day, does it not?

    IT IS TIME to let the Iraqi government deal with their own sets of problems. If they can afford to take a two month break, then they can afford to handle their own messes.

    Someone will surely say that Iraq wouldn't be in this mess were it not for the United States invading and occupying Iraq, which is true. But, since the Iraqi government has done nothing of importance to help with bringing stability to the country and have so far screwed around with getting the job done, it is time for the U.S. to go home! It is also time to send Cheney and Bush home, or to prison. I like the latter option better!

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