Isn't it ironic that Bush's war of choice may have fataly damaged the GOP?

Question

I feel like Nelson Muntz in the Simpsons. ( HA haaa ! ), but the damage they have wrought upon this nation is incalcuable.
One hoped they would be smart enough not to support this fool.

fangtiay: I disagree. This was Mr Bush's war of choice. The GOP used him as a front man, he agitated for this war using lies and false pretense and Republicans ran the show for six years.
Now, saddled with an unpopular president and an unpopular war, the GOP is looking to evade responsibility. This IS Mr. Bush's war and he will someday be held accountable for it.
After he is gone, the damage control can get started.

Answer 1

What I find ironic is the people who disagree with you which confirms to me I could never agree with republican politics as a whole. The people left supporting the war and think President Bush has done a good job, my opinion, are the people who are the most stubborn, arrogant, intolerant and extreme in the party, they are the problem. The hard core, vote republican or die people. No amount of damage by a republican politician could ever change their vote. I have said on here over and over, Rudy doesn't stand a chance and yet he is the only republican able to win the White House. The republican party needs an overhaul, cleansing and new direction, or else they are dead in the water.

Answer 2

I think one component we forget is the value of "face". The USA under "Daddy" Bush did not continue to negotiate re: Sadam and chose military action. Bush, Sr. removed troops when continuing without an exit plan would be inadvisable. He says that himself.

"Dub-yah" following legacy went in without an exit plan, I believe to save "face" for the previous failed actions taken towards Iraq. He furthered the point by USA control of oil. Both wars were about Resources - Nuclear and Oil. But another consideration: what about "the axes" of evil. Would you like to see Iraq "teamed" with Korea? We did hit "the weakest link"... We will never know on that one, if it was just a scare tactic for support of the war or a true threat.

Many soldiers tell stories about fighting for the people of Iraq and believing in the good that has been accomplished on a human rights level. I hope we remember this when our service men and women come home and not slight them, as we did in Viet Nam. Already our government has begun not adequately medically treating our vets. Let us as citizens get behind our returning soldiers and make sure the past is not repeated on the home front. It's one issue everyone in the USA could agree on, don't you think?

Answer 3

The mullahs of the GOP needed device-boy Bush over an self sufficient truth seeker like McCain. So, through people like Rush and dissimilar lies spread through the voters, they claimed McCain grow to be a Democratic get mutually device. And look what we were given - the worst, maximum partisan president in historic previous.

Answer 4

I feel bad for the rest of the GOP, who along with many others went along with Bush's misguided thinking when we first got into this war. The Republicans took a beating in the recent midterms solely because the people wanted a Congress that would stand up to Bush. More Republicans will fall in 2008, not so much by their own fault, but by Bush's incompetence.

Answer 5

I think that all the government leaders - Republican and Democrat, President, House, and Senate - all saw the intelligence that pointed to an impending threat from Iraq. Iraq violated its cease fire treaty from the first Gulf War, and appeared to be a threat to the USA.

Was is unpopular, but I think that the whole government thought that it was the appropriate thing to do in the wake of 9-11. The resolutions may not have been unanimous supporting the Iraq war, but it was pretty close. Now people are breaking ranks like cowards and blaming it all on Bush.

I think that the intelligence was bad, due to the previous 8 years of neglect to intelligence under the previous administration. And people relied on it, and made the best decision they could have made at the time.

But you are absolutely right, war sucks, and is very unpopular. But what you're missing is that the politicians who are breaking ranks for their own political gain are self-serving cowards.

Answer 6

The fact that they are stubborn has fataly damaged the GOP. They are too proud and arrogant to admit to their mistates. When there was no weapons of mass destruction, they claim to have made the war to liberate people. When the people being liberated reveal that they were actually safer living under a crazy dictator then they are now, they claim to be fighting terrorists. People are beginning to wise up and see that it is a civil war that we are standing in the middle of, and those crazy psychopaths will be fighting each other forever. There isn't much we can do to stop it. We lost more soldiers in Iraq then we lost people in 9/11, yet they claim that this war makes us safer. The average american (not the average right wing nutjob) is beginning to see the facts. There is no cure for the far right. They will crawl back into their holes and bicker while they wonder why they lost the moderates in this country.

Answer 7

Yes. Maybe that explains why Hitlery Clinton and John Kerry voted for the Iraq war. Evidently Clinton and Kerry like using our soldiers lives as tools for their own political ambition. Typical liberal scum. They know the military will protect them even when they get our soldiers killed by emboldening our enemies with their lies about President Bush.
I'd love to tell the asker of this question how low he is but he is too cowardly to accept emails and calling him what he is here would result in the mother of all violation notices being sent to me.
The asker here should thank God that his freedom to lie about President Bush is being protected by President Bush.
Planksheer, be glad you weren't born in Saddam's Iraq.
Wake up and smell the jihad...

Answer 8

Many Repubs are finally beginning to speak out against the war. The election of 2006 was a wake up call. Not that Bush learned anything. Now he is ready to go into Iran.

Answer 9

It would be wonderful if his idiot war fatally damaged the GOP.

Unfortunately, the Republican Party and conservatism continue to march boldly backward, spewing fallacy and insane policy the way the Bush Administration spews lies.

The damage that Bush and his Flying Monkeys have done to America will take decades to undo.

Answer 10

What has damaged the war is our unwillingness to take the gloves off and fight.

What has damaged the GOP is the fact that there are too few in the party are conservatives; most glaringly George W. Bush.