2008 Woodie Awards
Peace at any price is too high a price
Dane Schumann
Issue date: 12/1/05 Section: Opinion
It takes no political genius to see that the White House and the president have been under fire. But the mounting criticisms that currently haunt the administration are relatively weak when the attacks over the Iraq war are put into perspective.
The apparent disapproval and alleged misleading of national security-clearance credentialed senators has and continues to cause a perpetual buzz in Washington and around the country. Foes of the administration continue to be complacent to rectify what they allege as past wrongs by making constant references to the White House's alleged misleading. They continue to not accept the fact that we are in Iraq with over 130,000 men and believe that their clever semantic infiltration will win the day over the military and Iraqi political realities.
There is no doubt that there have been mishandlings of the war in Iraq by the president and his administration. However, at least these people have decided to move on from their mistakes and are now looking forward with options and efforts being directed toward the conflict.
Many continue to have no militarily viable policy for the future of the country or the handling of the war that continues to be waged within it. Democrats like Pennsylvania's John Murtha make feeble attempts to live in the present by suggesting immediate unilateral withdrawal of forces or suggesting timetables of incremental withdrawals of troops.
Anyone should be able to tell that these proposals, if seen to fruition, would serve no other purpose than gaining political favor among liberals and a relative handful of American moderates. They are not, as top military and Defense Dept.. Officials have repeatedly stated, feasible military options if the United States is to win the war.
But the backwardness and meandering manner by which opponents of the administration blast the Iraqi reality doesn't stop there. They also neglect, consciously or perhaps otherwise, the benefits of a free and democratic state within the Middle East. Are they frightened perhaps of the idea of George W. Bush actually going down in history as a historic world figure? That notion seems so taboo in a contemporary sense but it is undeniable if the Iraq project is seen to its full realization.
The apparent disapproval and alleged misleading of national security-clearance credentialed senators has and continues to cause a perpetual buzz in Washington and around the country. Foes of the administration continue to be complacent to rectify what they allege as past wrongs by making constant references to the White House's alleged misleading. They continue to not accept the fact that we are in Iraq with over 130,000 men and believe that their clever semantic infiltration will win the day over the military and Iraqi political realities.
There is no doubt that there have been mishandlings of the war in Iraq by the president and his administration. However, at least these people have decided to move on from their mistakes and are now looking forward with options and efforts being directed toward the conflict.
Many continue to have no militarily viable policy for the future of the country or the handling of the war that continues to be waged within it. Democrats like Pennsylvania's John Murtha make feeble attempts to live in the present by suggesting immediate unilateral withdrawal of forces or suggesting timetables of incremental withdrawals of troops.
Anyone should be able to tell that these proposals, if seen to fruition, would serve no other purpose than gaining political favor among liberals and a relative handful of American moderates. They are not, as top military and Defense Dept.. Officials have repeatedly stated, feasible military options if the United States is to win the war.
But the backwardness and meandering manner by which opponents of the administration blast the Iraqi reality doesn't stop there. They also neglect, consciously or perhaps otherwise, the benefits of a free and democratic state within the Middle East. Are they frightened perhaps of the idea of George W. Bush actually going down in history as a historic world figure? That notion seems so taboo in a contemporary sense but it is undeniable if the Iraq project is seen to its full realization.