Reason To End The War In Iraq‏

I believe that a target date for redeploying our troops from Iraq is vital in our efforts to combat terrorism abroad. As the President has shown no indication that he would consider a timetable, Congress must use its 'power of the purse' to fix this dire situation immediately. So far every top military commander in Iraq has stated very clearly that further military action in Iraq is useless and a military solution is not possible. Diplomatic action must begin and should have started over two years ago. President Bush has stated many times that he is guided by his commanders onthe ground, which makes sense. Unfortunately every ranking commander thathas disagreed with Bush starting back with General Shinseki has ended up offthe team and headed back home as a retired General real quick.This time when a new commander was needed as a replacement for a four star that just could not remember his lines and deliver as expected they started searching the list of Generals and finally found an ambitious three starthat was a real quick study and excellent with his lines. He was rewarded withthe job and a fourth star. Our military could then go back to fighting actual terrorists, the ones that did the damage, but could have been stopped before 9/11! That homegrown variety in Iraq are ones we created by our needless continued occupation of their home land. What other line of work does anyone seriously believe that some dedicated well trained members of a dissolved military would turn to other than guerilla warfare? Iraq had a large well trained military that sharpened their fighting skills in that Iran - Iraq war sometime back and not all of their military members hated Saddam Hussein, which many people seemto have forgotten. Another thing that gets swept under the rug to involve Iranis the fact that all of those i.e.d.s must have come from Iran because Iraq didnot have any demolition experts in all of their military that would know how or have the desire to build those charges. Just how stupid do the top members of this Bush regime think the majorityof our country actually is, to believe their fairyland BullFeathers? If any hostilities should begin against Iran by the United States we can be sure that itwas provoked by the Bush Administration and Congress should address theproblem immediately. President Bush and Vice President Cheney should at once be brought up on impeachment charges for contempt of Congress by engaging in unauthorized warfare without cause and the Secretary of State beassigned the task of ending hostilities and begin diplomatic negotiations out of that deliberate mess. Anyone that illegally attacked, destroyed, invaded and occupied our countrywith no cause, as we did to Iraq, would also be fighting so-called terrorists. I would be leading one of those forces. But like those Iraqi so-called terrorists under those circumstances, we would have no intention, desire or means leftto invade their country any more than they do to us. They just want us out of their country and will do whatever is needed to get us out. When the old Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, the civilians turned to the same tactics thatare used in Iraq today. When the last Soviet troops retreated back home, nobody from Afghanistan followed them home forcing the Soviets to fight them in the streets of the Soviet Union. That statement by Bush to his biographer on just keeping us there long enough to ensure that the next President is stuck cleaning up his mess should have been grounds for impeachment right then and there and if found guilty, imprisonment. The proof came from his own mouth!
Sincerely,Frank Gorman
Aiken, South Carolina