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Originally Posted by jyoshu
However, what is frustrating is that we all know good and well that if an involved general on the ground had publicly taken issue with BUSH in this way on the Iraq war, he would have been portrayed as a hero by the Democrats and anti-war movement.
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And it is so frustrating to IMAGINE the Democrats acting some way, and then having the Republicans act that way and get criticized...
I mean, if John shoots his wife, he should obviously be able to tell the judge that if the judge was married to his wife, the judge would have shot her too!
Obviously, that's a valid response...
< end sarcasm >
Look. One of the things that has to be done to avoid political childishness is to refuse to use this "Well, I think Johnny would have jumped off the cliff too." mentality as some sorts of bizarre twist on "If everybody else jumped off the cliff, would you follow them"...
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Originally Posted by jyoshu
And even though McChrystal was wrong in the way he went about presenting his view, he is correct in that it is taking Obama ENTIRELY too long to make decisions on Afghanistan.
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Funny.
Obama raised troop presence in Afghanistan shortly after taking office.
Bush spent how many years detracting from Afghanistan, doing even less?
It's like Republicans are suddenly finding new concern over issues that they didn't have while a Republican could be to blame...
