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“I will end this war!”

Or, the never ending mantra of the lilly livered left

By: Vegas_Rick (Diary)  |  July 19th, 2008 at 07:43 PM  | 

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“I will end this war!” Five simple words. Five one-syllable words that are music to the ears of anti-war nut roots. Yet, at the same time, these five simple words scream defeatism, retreat and capitulation to the millions of moderate and right leaning Americans who don’t like to lose wars. Americans who mourn the outcome of the Vietnam War.

Five words. But, only one has real meaning. End. It has many meanings. It is an ambiguous word. Of course Barack Obama is skilled at stringing together ambiguous words and phrases and speeches. They’re so much easier to use when one needs to deny and deflect past comments.

But, in this context, and in the final analysis, the word ’end’ has only one meaning. One can verbalize that meaning in a number of ways; quit, retreat, capitulate, run, punt, surrender to terrorism or whatever comes to the reasonable mind. At the end of the day we all know what he means.

But, what if he switched that one meaningful word, with another, simple, one-syllable word? A word that, in this context, has only one meaning.

Win

“I will win this war!”

Why can’t he say that? Hell, why can’t any Democrat say that except Senator Lieberman? Are they such cowards, that they find armed conflict so utterly distasteful, that it can’t be dignified by wanting to win it?

Can anyone explain it?

Rick Liedtke

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  • Rod_Patrick

    We share the same disappointment and we must not forget our respective stand yesterday, today and tomorrow:

    We must win/are winning/won the War!

    And the History books will narrate that the US was victorious in the war against terror.

  • Volunteer

    Rick and Rod…
    Checking the latest stats on Iraq, seems like the insurgents are bailing out to North Africa. Afghanistan is, if you believe the MSM, about to collapse. Just a simple check at the Pentagon Channel gives the lie to the MSM inputs. We are actually accomplishing our goals in both theatres. Obama’s visit this week could not and would not have happened a year ago. The DOD would not have been able to keep the bad guys at bay. Today, the MSM and Obama’s troupe walk around in safety. An open set of evidence that the goals our President set in 9/11 are nearly complete. Obama will have an easy path re: Terrorism Wars, et al come January. Our real problem now is what will the agenda’s of his Sofa Sitters be, come January? These Left Sovietized Sofa Sitters are avidly preparing briefs, white papers, and legislation ready to implement come January.
    Be prepared, it is going to be a first class Left Sponsored disaster.
    end

  • Rod_Patrick

    There’s no other way to prevent this holocaust and the ill motives of the so-called Sofa Sitters:

    Help McCain get elected in November.

    NOBAMA08!

  • ispeedtoo

    I voted for *Reagan * and I will not vote for McCain. The man is not a conservative and as much as he might lay claim to hero I saw first hand the treatment he gave to MIA families. The man is brute.

    But that is not the point of this thread. You all need to read the current headlines.

    IRAQ PM ASKS USA TO LEAVE!!!!

    It is over! Do you want to be standing tall as the world court calls us Occupiers, Invaders or worst Imperialists?

    Think it over because you have less than 60 days and it will start!

  • speciallist

    n/t

  • Doc_Holliday

    nt duh, another 3.0 bug? no more -nt comments?

  • speciallist

    He says..”You all need to read the current headlines”..

    He needs to read a little before he steps in it..people have been talking about this All Day

  • ispeedtoo

    Much in the last 48 hours has been made of the misquoted Iraqi PM, the fact is this is not a misquote. The US state department was caught flat footed because someone in the Iraqi government has figured out how to bust the American conservative arguement to stay the course.

    OUCH! read it for your self

    “But in Iraq, controversy continued to reverberate between the United States and Iraqi governments over a weekend news report that Maliki had expressed support for Obama’s proposal to withdraw American combat troops within 16 months of January. The reported comments came after Bush agreed on Friday to a “general time horizon” for pulling out troops from Iraq without a specific timeline.”

    “But the interpreter for the interview works for Maliki’s office, not the magazine. And in an audio recording of Maliki’s interview that Der Spiegel provided to The New York Times, Maliki seemed to state a clear affinity for Obama’s position, bringing it up on his own in an answer to a general question on troop presence.”

    http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/21/america/21obama.php

  • speciallist

    n/t