What do republicans like about the war?

Question

Other than sticking it to the "liberls", what about this war is there to cheer about, what do you like about it? Where do you see it going?

Answer 1

There is not a politican out there that "Likes or Cheers" about a war. Does not matter who you are or your political beliefs.

Bush is stubborn and hard headed but his reasoning for not pulling out..I understand.

When Clinton pulled us out of Somalia years ago BinLadin looked at that as a weakness and started planning his attacks. All this BS in congress only makes us look weak in the eyes of enemies. If we pull out they will regroup, train and bring the fight here. If Iraq leadership can prevail amd get conrol we may have a chance to change their thinking 10 to 20 years from now. A new generation has to grow up with a chance to learn and be educated. The ones there will never change.

Answer 2

Nobody likes wars except psychopaths and very few Republicans and nobody that I know of in government is one. It is, however, a fact and cannot be lost without huge negative results for western civilization.

Answer 3

hmm..eevn republicans are kinda not in favor of the war now and are trying to distance themselves from total-war-supporter Bush.....i'm Canadian and i respect and admire the American soldiers' commitment and loyalty to whatever their government wants them to do....but what not to cheer about this war is its true purpose...but i guess now that the problem's created, the US might as well try and fix it

Answer 4

I agree with the general sentiment that most people -- Republicans and Democrats alike -- do not like war. That doesn't mean, however, that some people don't promote war and conflict for various reasons, among them personal gain in the form of wealth and power; and, wars tend to funnel both into the hands of a few.

The following is an interesting op ed piece by Les AuCoin:

"You Don't Know Dick
Thu Jun 28, 6:48 PM ET

It's surprising that it took so long for Dick Cheney to be seen as the shadowy, macabre figure he has revealed himself to be -- a tout of torture, a prophet of preemptive war, and a sorcerer of secrecy (not to mention a wholly self-owned branch of the U.S. government).

Before and after the 2000 election, when Cheney led the vice presidential search -- and picked himself -- the mainstream media equated his quiet manner and mellifluous voice with a moderate personal nature that happened to embrace orthodox conservatism. This proves they didn't know dick about Cheney.

I did. Still do.

My epiphany occurred on a May morning in 1987, when Cheney and I found ourselves together in Red Square.

It was a heady era. We had accompanied then-House Speaker Jim Wright and other legislators to Moscow to meet Mikhail Gorbachev, the intriguing new Kremlin leader who offered hope for a thaw in, if not the end to, the Cold War. Even British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the archconservative "Iron Lady," had announced after meeting the charismatic Gorbachev, "We can do business together."

On our second morning in Moscow, my friend, U.S. Rep. Norm ***** (D-WA), and I rose early to jog before the start of a long day of meetings. What could be more indicative of the new US-Soviet era than two U.S. congressmen trotting through Red Square, past Lenin's Tomb and the Kremlin, without clearance from a party apparatchik?

As we circled in front of St. Basil's Cathedral for our return, a spectral figure emerged in the distant mist. If someone had said the hunched man in the overcoat was Karla, the ethereal cold-blooded Soviet spymaster in John Le Carré's novels, you wouldn't have gotten an argument from me.

It turned out to be not Karla but Cheney, the second-highest ranking Republican in the U.S. House, the senior Republican on the trip, George Bush Sr.'s soon-to-be secretary of defense -- and, ultimately, the real-life American version of the funereal Karla.

Steam rising from our sweat suits, ***** and I were anxious to share our exuberant moment with Cheney. "Imagine, Dick!" Norm exclaimed. "Here we are, standing in the middle of Red Square. What does it make you think?"

Cheney gave a thin smile and replied, "Just that I'm standing on Ground Zero."

I knew Cheney for ten years as a fellow congressman and for four years when he was defense secretary and I, a member the House Defense Appropriations Committee.

When people ask me to describe Cheney, I say, "morbid."

This is a man who believes in war (despite -- perhaps because -- he's never been in one), feels no moral qualms about making the U.S. an attack-first nation, and subscribed to the nuclear doctrine perfected by Reagan's defense secretary, Casper Weinberger: "1) to fight a protracted nuclear war; 2) to fight it on a global basis and, 3) to prevail".

Today the war believer -- immersed in almost every Bush White House initiative, major and minor -- is leading a highly veiled reorganization of U.S. military priorities, downgrading al Qaeda and upgrading nuclear-minded Iran.

Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh reports that the policy "redirection" rests on the calculation that Iran is, or will become, the more potent enemy of the two. It is also based on the possibility that Tehran will fill the power vacuum created by the near total collapse of Iraqi society -- and that Iraq's predominate Shiite population will align itself with Tehran in building a de facto Greater Shiite Iran. (This is exactly the outcome of the US invasion that many independent analysts predicted, to Cheney's scorn.)

Influenced by the vice president, Hersh reports, the Bush Administration has infiltrated U.S. Special Forces into Iran to gather intelligence on bombing targets for the four aircraft carrier strike groups poised in the Mediterranean Sea.

I don't know if Cheney has stood in the Grand Bazaar in central Tehran.

But I know Dick, and I'm sure he has thought of his own name for it."

When I think about this article in the context of the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive that was quietly signed by George Bush in May (without Congressional approval), I don't think this war is going to lead to anything good.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/print/20070509-12.html
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55825
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