Bush Vetoes bill that calls for troops to pull out, blames insurgencies as reason. [don't need to read my post, picture sums it up]

A few years ago, just before the Iraq War had started, the White House (mainly President Bush) assured Americans that the war to terrorism would prove effective if the U.S. had rid the world of Saddam. It was presented as "fact" that the U.S. government had gathered intelligence connecting Iraq with Al Qaeda through a secret meeting they had in Prague. Now four years later, thousands of soldiers (U.S. & allies), innocent men, women, and children in Iraq are dead, and some trillions of dollars already spent on the war as President Bush vetoes the Bill to withdraw troops. He explains that this "rigid and artificial" time table is dangerous due to public knowledge of the crucial time line. Insurgency, he explains would gain strength from this bill. Thus what was gained in Iraq will be lost.

What gain in Iraq? We haven't really won anything. The established government is weak. Democracy is a dream in Baghdad and countless other areas. What I want to know is why has the bill gone through the process so fast? Ever since Bush took over, Congress started meeting less days out of the session. They also spend less time debating over whether a proposal should become a bill or not. When something is this important, and entails valid warrants from the public, shouldn't they spend more time debating over it so to gain support from the opposition party? Secondly, we were promised that Saddam was a key role to fighting the war on terrorism, that hasn't shown to be true since. We are still facing the same threat, and Iraqis are enduring greater violence since. Understandably, terrorism is vague and sometimes unidentifiable enemy; it has no specific location to point to, and personnels are often elusive. There are no static country in which we can find and wipe them off the face of the earth, making the fight all the more difficult. Yet this administration has tried to make ease of the perplexing topic by branding several specific nations as the "Axis of evil". I am starting to see that the government is ambivalent to this fact as it tries to go after one nation after another. This is not to say that they are on any account innocent, but rather, I see it as a waste of resource used up on any one country (Iraq) rather than trying to find a new method to fight this enormous threat to democracy. Like many people have said, this unique warfare requires a unique strategy. I think a fight through the media and diplomacy is more effective. Support and friendship from the international community is key to weaving out terrorist cells. Machismoism is pasé and perhaps below us. How can we expect the world to perceive us as sophisticated when we acted like brutes on the international playground? We will only look like fools trying to fight something we can't see or touch. Blunders resulted from the war in Iraq have made us lost credibility with many nations, and many more if this continues without substantial progress.

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This guy is pretty fierce about it too. You can tell cause he's stuttering and being supremely redundant. Well maybe not cause he's excited about the topic, I'm guessing cause he's a million years old. When are we getting younger congressmen? We need more people that aren't deaf so they can hear public opinions.