Posted by
Young Republican on Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:08:09 AM
One of my favorite games as a child was and still is Monopoly. However as any die-hard Parker Brothers player can tell you the game can go on and on and on until someone just gives up. That is the situation we as the American voting public now face with Iraq. Going into Iraq got the support of the vast majority of Americans but now the same majority wants to leave. I really can't blame them.
War is a terrible thing and the stories of the young men and women we have lost are almost too much to hear let alone imagine the daily hell their lost inflicts on the lives of their families. If this war took the life of my brothers or sisters, I'd probably be protesting it with everything that I've got. You have to have something to blame might as well be George W. Bush.
But with all that said many people simply want President Bush to answer this one very simple question. What is winning? We want to win but let us know what it is. It doesn't have to include timelines and deadlines to help the enemy just tell us what we need to achieve in Iraq for the vast majority of our troops to come home.
America has been in this game of "War" for five years only it isn't a game and the pieces we are losing are the best of this generation. We want to win so let us. Tell us what to do. Give us the direction we need to support and get the support of the American public. And while this war belongs to President Bush it belongs to all of us, every one who calls themselves an American.
And for our next Commander in Chief, either Barack Obama or John McCain, they will have accepted the challenge to write the ending of this war for our history books. And while blaming President Bush is all fine and good in a debate, the true impact of what they decide will have real world consequences that you don't poll on. Obama has already said he wants to get out and doesn't care about winning. John McCain has said he wants to get out but slower than Obama and cares about winning but hasn't articulated what that is.
If he doesn't he deserves to lose. And don't take that for meaning Obama deserves to win. We have serious problems in this country the biggest being a war that will have ending. The question is which one?