Subscribe!Today President Bush stated that "There's one thing I'm not going to do, I'm not going to pull our troops off the battlefield before the mission is complete." (See the CNN article.) While I do think that we have created a mess that we must clean up, the problem is that the mission has never been properly defined. At first it was Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, then it was remove a tyrant, or was it because of the imaginary link between Iraq and Sept. 11, or was it to build a democracy for others in the region to see? It is apparent to anyone with the ability to think for themselves that we were misled into the Iraq war, that Bush and his cohorts have/had reasons for going to war that they still have not disclosed.
Mr. President, we have been in Iraq long enough without any defined goals. We removed Hussein from power, perhaps the only positive from the entire mess. But at what cost? Thousands of American lives and casualities, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives, and the creation of a civil war. Let's set a timetable with specific goals that pressure the Iraqi government to begin taking responsibility for their own security.
