Surrender

Barack Obama said the following in the latest debate.

"I want to get our troops home safely, and I want us as a country to have this mission completed honorably."

Is it possible to surrender honorably? Maybe I'm just strange, but I fail to see how surrender can be construed as "honorable." I don't like the idea of a President who supports "honorable surrender." Is that how Obama plans to deal with terrorists? by surrendering honorably? What do you think would happen to Israel if their mindset was one of "honorable surrender?"

Oh, and as far as Iraq is concerned. I'm so sick of people saying we had no authority to go in, or that GWB dragged us into the war. Saddam acted like he had WMD's, both our own intelligence and foreign intel(whether faulty or not) said he had them. Were we supposed to just ignore the threat like Clinton did for years with Al-Qaeda? We use military force all the time without "declaring war." Hell we haven't declared war since WWII, and Congress (democrats included) DID vote to give GWB the go-ahead to use military force. When Hillary says "I voted for the Resolution, but not to go to war." The resolution was the war.

Bush said things that turned out to be false. He did not "lie" to the American people. Clinton on the other hand told a bold-faced lie to the American people on National Television, and more importantly, he perjured himself under oath. I don't care what he lied about, committing perjury is serious, especially when it's done by the President. Funny how liberals wanted Bush impeached when he didn't actually do anything illegal. It's also funny how I find myself sometimes standing up for Bush even though I really don't like the guy.

And hell, Saddam may have actually had weapons and gotten rid of them right before we went in. (it's not like we weren't talking about it ahead of time.) We'll never know, and it doesn't really matter at this point anyway. When you refuse to allow weapons inspectors access to sites it makes it look like you're hiding something y'know?

Also, what good are "UN Resolutions" if they are never enforced? Saddam violated them 13 times over many years and no one did a damn thing, including Clinton. All we ever did was say "You're a bad man! and then lobbed over a few cruise missiles. Saddam said himself that he thought we'd do the same again, and was therefore surprised when GWB sent in troops. Wasn't Saddam's defiance of International law reason enough to go in?

Someone has to enforce UN resolutions and mandates, since they mean nothing if not backed up by force. Why bother having the UN if they're not going to actually DO anything?