Quagmire Accomplished

Today, President Bush said that he would not "cut & run" - that he will stay in Iraq until our mission is accomplished.  "...we will stay in the fight until we have achieved the victory our brave troops have fought and bled for."

Well, I remember he said we had to act to stop Sadam's weapons of mass destruction.  (No weapons - mission accomplished.)  Then we had to stop Iraq's support of terrorism.  (Sadam removed - mission accomplished.)  We need to protect the Iraqi people for a evil dictator. (Sadam captured - mission accomplished.)


There can be no victory because the mission keeps changing to match Bush's ever-moving political agenda.  He already declared Mission Accomplished on the deck of an air craft carrier on May 2, 2003. So the mission ended over two years ago.  Over 2,000 American lives ago.

What is going on now can't be described as a failed policy  -  it's no policy.  There is no plan, there is no mission.  Bush/Cheney/Rove simply want to kill American sevicemen and women.

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I want to thank Representatives McKinney, Serrano and Wexler for voting for H. Res 571 - the immediate pullout from Iraq.  These three courageous Democrats were the only three Aye votes recorded.

While this was a stunt by the majority, it was an opportunity to place our party on the record that our mission was accomplished and it is time to begin removing troops from this quagmire.

I wrote to these three representatives acknowledging my satisfaction with their vote.  I asked them to continue voicing their conscious in hope it will demonstrate to my congressman it is acceptable to display the same courage.