Reply #10: Welcome to DU, Liberal Dragon. [View All]

[alcuno]

You are in LBN so you need a link. I'm not sure what support these other countries are supposed to give us. We said that we were going to do this without them and that's what we did. Last year, when the German foreign minister switched over to English he told Rumsfeld that he could not go to the German people and say they had to go to war when even he did not believe it.

I am of German descent and understand their reluctance to enter into an elective war; they have a history, as does Japan, and have learned from their past actions. My father may STILL believe that the re-unification of Germany was a bad idea. And I just can't get that excited about Iraq's murky connections when Pakistan, our new friend, is a Muslim country with nukes and an apparent history of channeling components and plans to other countries.

Stop blaming everyone else. If our president truly wanted help in Iraq he would make an effort to get it. He has destroyed our credibility in the world and is making no attempt to restore it. We own that.