Republican become skeptical on Iraq

Republicans are no longer prepared to “stay the course”

President Bush no longer enjoys the support he did after 9/11 when he invaded Iraq and began his crusade against terrorism. It wasn’t long ago that President George W. Bush was hailed as a hero and his kind-but-clumsy demeanor and intellectual flaws were viewed by supporters as positives because they helped him connect to the “common man.” President Bush is now infamously known as the president who invaded Iraq based on shaky (or non-existent) evidence while ignoring Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden- the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attack. Some Bush-haters would go so far as to suggest that the President’s choice to focus on Iraq cost the United States a good chance to capture the vile Osama Bin Laden.Conservatives don’t necessarily see Iraq as a total failure, but it’s not a success either.

There was a point when everything made sense. The United States needed retribution, Saddam was due for an ousting and a beating, the war on terror was one worth fighting. Only a few years later, we’ve learned that our military was and still is ill-equipped to sustain a war against the insurgents in Iraq. We didn’t have enough troops when we started this war, and the United States still struggles to sustain the military; tens of thousands of men have fulfilled their contracts and are unable to return home to their families. We have an absurd deficit after having a balanced budget throughout the 90s, and we continue to either purge or water down programs intended to help the less fortunate members of society. We continue to require enormous amounts of tax dollars for military sustenance and recruitment. We’ve committed ourselves to unethical acts, unAmerican laws, and we’ll have to deal with an obscene multi-trillion dollar federal budget deficit and a multi-billion dollar trade deficit.

Fred Soto is an Attorney and Entrepreneur from the Silicon Valley.
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