Leaving Iraq

Conservative principles often give in the face of politics. Supply side economics had to take a vacation after Reagan for a bit, when people decided trickle down was bullshit. Luckily, Freepers have a solution - the cult of personality. By making everything about loving or hating political luminaries, they can avoid any ideological consistency.

So it is with the exit from Iraq. Eternal imperial wars of choice are clearly manly and awesome, but these days Iraq seems unpopular. So with this symbolic draw-down and unsupported victory celebration, which side to take? The popular anti-Iraq side, or the ideologically pure we should stay there forever side?

Whichever side is anti-Obama of course!

Ghost of Philip Marlowe gets a bit convoluted:

Wow!

How about that!

Just in time for the midterm elections!

All those soldiers returning home can go to their local bank and take out a small-business loan!

Which are also — COINCIDENTALLY ENOUGH — ALSO just starting to be pushed out by the banks!

Just in time for the midterms!

As a Christian I try not to hate anyone.

But I’m a human and imperfect. And I guess it is the imperfect side of me that hates Obammie the Commie.

ohioWfan has decided this is Bush's war still:

God bless these brave men and women and keep them safe.

And THANK YOU, President Bush for your perseverence and dogged desire for victory!

We have a great military, and we HAD a great Commander in Chief.

theDentist is not optimistic:

Call me a cynic, but I give it a month before they are in a civil war with an Iranian backed militant army.

mrsmith is optimistic, and goes against all wisdom from everyone to say:

And thank you Secretary Rumsfeld.
Your country owes you a great debt.

Freddd takes the cynical approach:

I bet our 50,000 troops who are still there, dealing with explosions etc, are glad to hear the ‘combat troops’ are leaving.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA , yeah right.

Those poor, poor troops. When will Obama think of them?

Free Vulcan knows things about Saddam's plans that totally wouldda happened:

No one will ever convince me that it was the wrong for us to go there.

Saddam DID have WMD’s. He had them made, he had them ready to be made on rapid reaction standby, and he was planning bigger and better things like nukes.

He was also planning to use them in CIA type operations to maximize terror.

Bush saved our asses on that one.