One Voice on Foreign Policy

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McCain has surrounded himself with the same unilateralist, ideologically driven neocons that surrounded Bush in his first term. McCain is a candidate from the Party of War, the Party of Fear-Mongering......McCain would guarantee an invasion of Brazil if he thought it would get him in the White House. If McCain is elected, the US has guaranteed itself a war with Iran.

treuj of CO 10:09PM August 05, 2008

ISRAEL DEARLY LOVES AMERICA AND DREADS OBAMA
Israel and the Diaspora dearly love America, like the parasitic blood sucking leech loves a barefoot boy. Obama, by refusing to commit himself to treason on behalf of the Israel, wonderfully reveals himself to be an American patriot, and a mortal threat to Israel’s parasitic relationship with its America host.

Jeugenen of MA 6:47PM June 26, 2008

Israel and the American Diaspora notoriously donate thousands of dollars to elect corruptible American presidential and congressional officials, who then repay Israel a thousand fold from precious tax revenues; with millions of dollars worth of technologically advanced military equipment and services, and with the priceless lives of thousands of young patriots. In the case of the un-Constitutional Iraq War, Podhoretz Neo-Con Bush sacrificed over a trillion dollars and the lives of 4,000 young patriots, to sole benefit of Israel

Jeugenen of MA 3:59PM June 22, 2008

The Senate Intelligence committee just publicly identified 5 areas in which the White House lied to the Senate and the American people in the run-up to the war. Some of those lies constitute treason. How can anyone claim that current policy is anything more than political posturing and electioneering? There was no plan to deal with the Sunni vs Shi'as from day one. Why? Because Bush was told it would be easy and he BELIEVED his nonsense from the flight deck when he declared VICTORY in Iraq years ago. Why are we still there if we won years ago?Embarrassed, he fired Karl Rove, the author of the current McCain 'strategy".
Now McCain says our policy is to maintain a force in Iraq like we have in Germany and that was the Karl Rove plan from the beginning.
The only problem with that is that it was recently rejected by the actual elected government of Iraq. The Republicans combine lies, ignorance of local culture and propaganda. Their trump card is to attack Iran. Stir up the rednecks and scare the soccer moms. No real plan. Just more of the same, forever.
PS> Still no multinational treaty to deal with the Kurds in the entire Middle East. Sad, and amazing.

bruce becker of CA 2:46PM June 17, 2008

We have presented a divided voice to the world on Iraq since the war began - why change now with Iran?
We have numerous similar situations now with Iran that we had with Iraq before the war started in 2003. Some of which include - concern over nuclear weapons (WMD), state sponsorship of terrorism, threat to neighboring countries in the region, refusal to comply with resolutions of the United Nations, threat to vital energy resources in the Gulf.........etc.
So why should we now follow a similar approach on Iran? The Bush administration made critical mistakes on its initial post invasion approach to bringing stability to Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, but we are quick to play Monday morning quarterback and sound like experts after the fact instead of proposing better solutions ahead of time. The Democrats are quick to criticize but they have not consistently presented any type of viable path forward on foreign policy issues - oops that's not entirely true - Democrats have been consistent on one item - criticize US policy and the Bush Administration without offering viable solutions. The "weak on foreign policy" branding is going to stay with the Democrats.
Again, why should attitudes change now towards Iran - especially in an election year with the Democrats hoping to take back the white house after 8 years? A winning scenario for the Democrats is to present an image to the voter (and the world) of a disasterous Bush administration with a war lost in Iraq. That is sad!
In a post-9/11 world with rogue countries having the capability of obtaining WMD - can we really afford to have one voice on foreign policy where one party's goal is to be quick to criticize every aspect of current policy while proposing the same old approach of appeasement and delay that only serves to embolden our enemies. Who is truly going to be bold enough to say - yes, mistakes were made but we did the right thing in getting rid of Saddam Hussein - this country / the world can not let a rogue nation obtain WMD - especially one with ties to terrorist organizations.
I don't see this year's McCain / Obama election to be any different in attacks and rhetoric that we have come to experience over the last several years. Too much is at stake starting with the personal AMBITION of the candidates followed by the POWER that either party would gain by a win in November. So much for doing what is in the best interest of our country.

Sir Robert Fox of PA 8:49AM June 11, 2008

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Kirsten Derynioski of DC 12:29PM June 10, 2008

McCain is right and Obama is wrong, so what is new.
Liberals cultivating the hate for America. History will reflect the many errors of the Iraq War; not because of what Bush has done, but what the Democrats have done. Although they voted to go to war, they have since vehemently pulled against the war and this president. They have steadily undermined the president and his cabinet, all in the name of politics. They have emboldened the terrorists.
According to most experts, if we leave Iraq without finishing the job it would have catastrophic effects. If we succeed in Iraq it will be in spite of the Democrats. If we are successful in helping Iraq create a constitutional government, most will recognize this as an amazing achievement and a historical event. A constitutional state would undermine Iran and challenge other countries in that region.
Losing one military person in combat is a tragedy; however, ponder that we lost more military personnel in three days of a major World War II campaign than we have lost in six years in Iraq. And during the Clinton administration, we lost more in peacetime accidents than we have lost in Iraq.
The hate of America comes from the weakness of America cultivated by the libs! Synergy could be a solution!

Darby of TN 5:56PM June 09, 2008