I just watched President Dopey deliver his latest missive on why we need to stay in Iraq. The entire logic of his speech was that since the military is fighting in Iraq; we need to stay in Iraq. All of a sudden it seems that our military is running US foreign policy. I got this same feeling watching Gen Petraeus testify to congress. Even Mike Huckabee, on MSNBC, made the same argument: we cannot leave Iraq because this would adversely effect the military. Where in our Constitution does it give any power to the Armed Forces to run foreign policy? When did President Bush decide that he runs foreign policy simply because he commands the armed forces? The only honest moment in this speech occurred when the President alluded to the ‘changing mission’ of our troops. In essence, he was saying that America will never leave Iraq. That our presence there is permanent. Once again, we are being led — unwillingly — into becoming an empire.
