What Is More Important to Both Democrats & Republicans: Saving Lives Or Winning the White House?

Question

The Democrats, like their Republican counterparts, have invested too much political capital into fictionalizing the problem with slogans like “support the troops,” “we’re fighting the enemy there so we don’t have to fight them here,”and “leaving Iraq would hand victory to al-Qaida.”

Nearly 4 1/2 years following President Bush’s ill-fated (and illegal) decision to invade and occupy Iraq, few people in a position to influence policy formulation and implementation in America have actually grasped the horrible truth about what has transpired, and what is transpiring, in Mesopotamia today. As the United States places the finishing touches on Fortress America, the new half-billion-dollar Embassy complex in the heart of the Green Zone in downtown Baghdad, and more troops pour into mega-bases throughout Iraq, the reality (and futility) of permanent occupation has yet to sink in. What could be going through the minds of those members of Congress who keep signing blank checks for the president?

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/07/3677/

The poor "private contactors" in occupied Iraq worry about going unemployed, I better get on the phone and tell Nancy to approve another $200 Billion so Halliburton, Blackwater, DynCorp and Custer Battles can keep sending my taxes to make millionaires out of these mercenaries!
NOT! Read: "The Great Iraq Swindle
How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury"
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle

Answer 1

The brandishing is my issue. The cavalier attitude that existed regarding the use of nuclear weapons really frightens me. Everyone seems so fine with the people that have threatened however indirectly to nuke someone whether its Pakistan or some random country. I dont recall a historical case of so much of this kind of talk ever. They all want to appear very willing to kill. Few want to appear willing to talk. Which is truely more isolationist Ron Paul stating pull out completely and let the world police itself. As well as engage in diplomacy or spend your efforts waving big sticks at virtually everyone.

Answer 2

Politicians will be politicians first.I'm afraid winning the white house comes first.The party comes first.The two big parties are power hungry machines fed by large donations who's sole and almost only purpose is to achieve and maintain power.
The candidates I don't think most of them are that cynical they knowingly choose winning the white house over saving lives.I think most would even aggressively deny that notion and even get angry for even suggesting such a thing.
Politicians are people too,just human beings.They grew up in the same world,they were fed the same propaganda and lies growing up so some might fall prey to the cheap slogans themselves,others might subconsciously choose the white house over saving lives because they really want the white house bad but can't live with the ugly self image if they saw the truth and the horrific consequences of the choices they make.
Human psychology often interferes with rationality and reason

Answer 3

In that not likely experience, he can do exactly like the Republicans interior the senate and veto each thing requiring a veto data majority to pass something. via con standards, if the Republicans won't be able to manage that, then that's their fault, not Barry's or the Democrats.

Answer 4

Silly boy . . . the white house doesn't hold any power . .. it's JUST a house . . . the real battle is over the Capitol and the Pentagon.

Which is more important?

We're fighting a war . . . for oil, in Iraq . . . and both parties are lying about it -- while people die.

Isn't it obvious?

Answer 5

saving lives by staying in Iraq until the job is done!!! Governor Huckabee said it best when he said that we fix what we broke. To leave now would surely result in the loss of more lives in the long run. The dems all want to include the lives of Iraqi civilians when they count the dead, but they do not want to consider their fate and the ethnic cleansing that would take place when we left. Also, i am a contractor in Iraq and do not want to be put out of a job. There will be over 400,000 civilian contractors out of work when/if this war ends. Most of them will go on unemployment, the rest will take the jobs from the people in the states that are less qualified than them, for the best and brightest are in Iraq now insuring our freedom and safety for the future.

Answer 6

Saving lives by winning the White House.

From New Orleans to Iraq, Republicans have proven they don't care about sacrificing American lives in the service of their twisted ideology.

Answer 7

If you look at the dems lack of support, for a war they voted for in the Iraq Liberation Act, you'll see that they are all about the white house!