Sometimes your goal is the most money possible. We already did some pulling out of Iraq and actually gave a date. Was that horrible? I haven't heard much about Iraq recently.
Iraq was a whole lot more relevant to the MSM and left leaning media when President Bush was in office. Things like a daily body count in the newspaper appear to have disappeared. I've not seen it in the paper in awhile but I don't look for it when I pick it up here at the office. Certainly the tide has turned in Iraq, but it's not ended all fighting and attacks on our troops.
I took a late lunch today and I think it's Mark Simone who is sitting in for Limpbaugh today. He was bleating about how now President Obama has double the troops in Afghanistan than he did when he came to office. To be perfectly fair to President Obama, wasn't it 18 months ago the same right wing talking heads were blasting him for dithering on the surge and not getting more troops in there? He can't win with the conservative media just like Bush couldn't win with the liberal media. One difference I do see, however, is the alphabet networks aren't giving Iraq near the coverage they did prior to the election in '08. JMO.
“We’re not engaged in sustained fighting. There’s been no exchange of fire with hostile forces. We don’t have troops on the ground. We don’t risk casualties to those troops,” said one senior administration official, who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity during a conference call arranged by the White House. “None of the factors, frankly, speaking more broadly, has risked the sort of escalation that Congress was concerned would impinge on its war-making power.”
These are things that didn't exist when the war powers act was created. Obviously the war powers act was in a reaction to Korea and Vietnam. This is a new type of fighting that does cost money but doesn't necessarily cost lives.
I don't agree. Any missiles we supply NATO or an ally and any bombs dropped from drones which kill innocent civilians in such a situation could result in a much larger scale involvement and would certainly be construed as an act of war in the country we are doing it. So would a forceful regime change. Were we not involved in the shelling of Uncle Moamar's compound?
