Why Republicans should be deposed

Above: A horrible scene in Baghdad, Iraq, as a massive explosion has just gone off.

I keep hearing cute statements by conservative Republicans like Sen. John McCain, who said recently, “I would commit suicide if the Democrats were elected to Congress.”

Well, Mr. McCain, in my opinion you and your party have already committed political suicide with the current state of our government. McCain should be pledging to work toward an end in Iraq, not spouting off comments he sees as funny.

McCain and his cohorts should realize that our nation MUST decide what our plans for Iraq are. Are we ever going to win this war? Let’s face it, if we were, it would already be over. The other day on the Mark Davis Show, I heard the conservative talk host Davis say that he too is wondering why the war is not yet over. Even Republicans are beginning to come to terms with this, and anyone with an ounce of realism knows this, too.

President Bush’s tired rhetoric of “stay the course, we must keep fighting,” is becoming rather pathetic.

Our nation is supposed to be the most powerful in the world, yet we are stuck in a quagmire that continues to boil over day by day. Meanwhile, Republicans like John McCain make jokes.

It’s time that inept Republicans like McCain were deposed from their seats in Congress — they obviously cannot get the job done, and they certainly aren’t looking out for what’s best for the citizens of the United States.

We are facing the most perilous times our nation has ever seen, yet we are truly divided by party, and by this unjust war in Iraq. Did you know that more than 600,000 Iraqi’s have died since the war began? That’s more than would have died in Saddam Hussein’s lifetime, had he remained as the leader of that country.

A new study published in "The Lancet," a respected British Medical Journal, first reported these astonishing findings earlier this month.

But, of course, the Bush camp is denying the report's validity. President Bush slammed it last week during a news conference in the White House Rose Garden. "I don't consider it a credible report. Neither does Gen. (George) Casey," he said, referring to the top ranking U.S. military official in Iraq, "and neither do Iraqi officials."

Last December, Bush said that he estimated about 30,000 people had died since the war began.

Meanwhile, the Republicans continue to defend the war as "just and needed."

Nothing could be further from the truth.

The Republican reich would have you believe that this war is helping prevent terrorism in the United States.

Again, nothing could be further from the truth.

Our nation, and the world, faces far greater threats from the likes of Kim Jong Ill in North Korea, and from Iran.

It isn’t OK that the war we caused in Iraq has killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. And their deaths are not worth the price of a Republican lie. (See Bush’s State of the Union Address in 2003 stating that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons).

I’m not saying this as a Democrat, an Independent or anything else. I’m saying this as a concerned, informed American.

Everyone who reads this should be just as concerned about what’s going on in Iraq right now.

Six-hundred-thousand lives.

Gone.

For a false war that never should have been fought in the first place.

And now that we are in the war, we can’t even seem to muster enough might to finish it. Why is that?

Has anyone ever stopped to think about why the most powerful nation in the world can’t stop a bunch of Arab thugs in the desert?

Imagine if we had to jump to the defense of South Korea when, God forbid, North Korea decides to bring war to that peninsula once again.

We couldn’t do it, all thanks to the inept planning of our great regime.

When are supporters of this war going to wake up and realize that it was a huge mistake. And there may be no way out now.