Define "stay the course"

[sandnsea]

Does it mean that the goal in Iraq is for it to have a constitution, have free and fair elections, and be able to maintain their own security?

[baldguy]

1. We owe it to the Iraqis.

They deserve a stable, prosperous, country with electricity, running water, sanitation, with a functional gov't and civil service in place.

They deserve to have their country back in one piece.

[azmesa207]

3. we owe it to the Iraqis

We owe those things to this country first let Bush and his Neo Con pay for it I don't owe Iraq anything I didn't break it Bush did.

[Cheswick2.0]

7. 80 percent of them want us out

What we owe them is to get out.

[Jacobin]

13. Actually, that's not quite right

Today's poll says 88% of Iraqis want us out. Now.

[NNN0LHI]

12. The White Man's Burden, eh? I hope you don't really believe that crap

Seriously. Do you really believe that?

Don

[baldguy]

18. "White man's burden"? BULLSHIT!

Even under Saddam, Iraq was a prosperous middle-class country.

WE DESTROYED IT!

Should we be allowed to fuck around with the world, and do NOTHING to fix it? We have no responsability to clean up our mess? We can rape and pillage and murder people with impunity? The little brown people have ne recourse, just because they're litte brown people? PAX AMERICANA and you're screwed if you don't accept it? God, I hope YOU don't believe that! Thats the kind of world the Bush noecons want to create.

Iraq doesn't need our army, they need our Army Corps of Engineers.

[NNN0LHI]

23. If someone kicked your door in would you want them to stay and fix it?

And while they were fixing it could they steal your shit to pay for the repairs and accost your family while they were repairing the door. Fuck no you wouldn't. You would say give me the fucking money and I will get it fixed by whoever the fuck I wanted to get to fix it. Tell me I am wrong. I fucking dare you.

Don

[Nlighten1]

24. Absolutely brilliant Don

What a perfect analogy. I would suspect, if this was the case, you would want the police to come and arrest these criminals.

[eaprez]

2. It Means...

...don't admit we screwed this one up!

They are even backing away from their "democratization" of Iraq ideal. Now the line is any 'modicum' of democracy is affirmation that this mission was a success.

[spanone]

4. Keep screwing up.

[El Supremo]

5. Build a field of dreams. n/t

[Straight Shooter]

6. Keep drinking the sour milk and putting it back in the fridge

Maybe it will taste better next time

[Gregorian]

8. Be belligerent, and don't think. Just do it.

[Maestro]

9. My ironic answer is...

keep going until Bushco figures out to do.

[Cheswick2.0]

10. How do you give another people a constitution?

Would we still be the USA if England had insisted on staying and writing our constitution for us?
What are the Iraqis to us, ignorant heathen we must train?
They want us out.

[MAlibdem]

11. "stay the course" is sort of silly...

we may want to keep going in the same direction, but the captain and officers need to be throw overboard and we need a different route to our destination.

[Cleita]

14. No, it means we are on the ship of fools heading for the iceberg

and he won't turn back and admit that the course he set was wrong. However, I don't think he knows what he is saying is a nautical term. What a moran!

[Vickers]

15. In Kerry's case it means "OK, let's get me elected..."

"...then let's get the fuck out."

[NNN0LHI]

19. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding! You nailed it n/t

[Bluebear]

16. "The ship of state is headed for the rocks"

Because the ship of state is headed for the rocks.

The crew knows it. The passengers know it. Only the captain of the ship, President Bush, appears not to know it. He seems to think that the ship will be saved by the imperceptible undercurrents, directed by the invisible hand of some cyclical economic god, that will gradually move the ship so that at the last moment it will miraculously glide past the rocks.

Well, prayer is always a good idea; but our prayers must be accompanied by good works. We need a captain who understands that, and who will seize the wheel before it's too late....



So step aside, Mr. Bush!

You've had your parade!

It's time for change! It's time for someone smart enough to know; strong enough to do; sure enough to lead.


--Mario Cuomo, nominating Bill Clinton. Applies today.

[Bridget Burke]

17. "Waist deep in the big muddy....

And the big fool says push on."

[jorno67]

20. Status Quo = stay the course

[Hubert Flottz]

21. It's a copy cat phrase from another failed Repub administration!

Stay the course = SOS = SAME OLD SHIT...........

[sandnsea]

22. Real cute answers

But, does it mean:

"a constitution, have free and fair elections, and be able to maintain their own security?"

or not?

[Ardee]

25. No ,of course it does not.

It means maintaining a base from which to threaten and control the entire middle east, and all that juicy oil.......