Is Rumsfeld's resignation the first Democrat victory for our troops?
923207
It is the first domino falling.....\n....Raising the minimum wage is top of the agenda and there will be more.\nThe voices for Impeachment of both of the top two will likely follow....
984882
What a win for us Democrats!  The Republicans financed Lieberman's win and now he will caucus with the Democrats!!!\n\nIt was a win/win situation for us. HA,HA.
763745
the left?\nif you mean Ralf Nader, i'd say he'll remain unedr spoken until he dies.\nif you think Nancy Poulsie is left, well she's not.\nas far as Rumsfeld resigning equally global peace, i think that remains to be seen. \ni think a victory for the letf would be the impeachment of bush.\nand representation in the government
700579
I agree in general. You are right in that a lot of the newly elected individuals were moderate and hopefully the things which can and will be done will be more along the mainstream of what is necessary for our nation. I do think we need a new strategy with Iraq but we can not just leave. I just hope the traditional method of the democrats is not the norm. The Dems have historically felt that through taxation they could solve anything. So hopefully those in office will work in a bi partisan effort to solve the issues before them.
926917
well, after they finally allowed the overseas military absantee ballots to be counted (that kerry's team tried to keep from happening because they arrived a day late or something similar), it wasn't even close.  Bush won by a large scale.  I don't know the actual numbers.
951069
Democrats rule!!! Bush has no brain and is running scared since his drinking buddies got booted out. He is probably crapping in his pants now. \nCheers for the Americans who voted Democrat. There were many Republicans who switched to the Democrat party because of this stupid war in Iraq.
747370
Actually the Democrats want to start doing a draw down on troops as soon as they take office. I sure wouldn't want to be one of the last ones there. Come home in a box that is for sure.
872776
The CIC still controlls the military, so don't expect the Democrats to do much. Sounds to me like they just used the war to get elected in. Now they do not care.
931867
Didn't you know?  We won the war on May 1, 2003.  That's when the Pentagon declared the end of "major combat operations".\n\nApparantly, no one told the Iraqi people...
951837
There will be changes in the US policy.  Many Republicans will join with a majority of the Democrats to see that the policy is changed.  The Republicans do not want to go into the 2008 elections with the same mess that they went into this election.  Further, Gates will be able to solicit fair and honest assessments which Rumsfeld didn't want to hear and the military leaders were afraid to give him.  Bush will also be able to jump on ideas from the Baker Commission which I think will have proposals that Democrats can also live with.  The million dollar question is how Bush will define "victory in Iraq".  Certainly he will not just walk out without being able to declare "victory" in some fashion.  The definition will not bear any relation to the grandiose claims of the victory the Administration was proposing when Bush took us into this mess.
888313
of course it was. That pyrrhic victory (or however the hell you spell it) was evident in the current election that just took place. The republicans use to dominate the senate and house. now the democrats have swooped in and taken it back because the american people has seen how inefficient the country has become under a republican regime. a new "counterculture" has emerged that is probably going to pull this country out ofa rut and bring it into the 21st century.
893793
If you believe Bush, which I don't, we won the same year we started.  What's going on now is peace and nation building.  What happened in Nam, and I was on active duty during the last three years, I retired at 20 years after Desert Storm, was that the Republicans, Nixon and Ford, caved as a result of public pressure and discontent with the body count.  Since Bush dodged service, I think has no understanding of that, and has set us up for the same result.  I will point out that our troops have done a lot of good for the Iraqis, I think our service people are the best of our best, my own daughter and her husband are on active duty.  Yes, I think a lot of us know the invasion was a mistake, I said so from day one, right now the question is how to fix it, and that is not something we will be able to do in a hurry.  Sad, but fact of life.
873526
If the Democrats get elected the iraq occupation will probably be over within his 6 months. Very few troops were killed during the last 12 years of a Democratic majority.
956944
I believe it is a good thing.  Actually it is something GWB should have considered when Rumsfeld let certain victory slip away in the early months of the Iraq war.\n\nThe criticism of Rumsfelds inaction started early on.  When he failed to protect borders from munitions and insurgents crossing them to wage war against our troops, this was completely unacceptable.  When he argued with military generals about having enough boots on the ground, this was unacceptable.  When he failed to secure mountains of captured arms and ammunition, this was unacceptable.  When he brought in Paul Bremer to run the show, this would have been laughable had it not been so sad.  When he dismissed the entire Iraqi army when he had potential for a trained military to help maintain calm, this was unacceptable.\n\nDonald Rumsfeld was a politican first and a defense secretary second.  All his decisions were first considered from a political view point.  Had FDR run the second world war that way, we would have never been victorious.\n\nWe need to stay in this war, because it is no longer a war to punish Saddam, or to create a democracy.  This has all been done.  Now, it is where we draw a line in the sand and tell these Islamist that we will stay as long as takes to defeat them, their Hezbollah movement, and their desire for nuclear weapons.\n\nThis whole program is now pointed at Ahmadinejad and his desire to control the whole middle east.  Other Arab country's are more concerned about Iran than they are Israel.  As a matter of interest, Saudi Arabia has had secret meetings with Israel about their mutual concern over Iran.  What does that tell you?  It tells me that Arab country's don't trust the Persians and they would rather have a defense pact with the Jews than with the Persians.   Go figure!
857394
Sorry, but Rumsfeld resigned Wednesday, after the elections. I seriously doubt his replacement, Robert Gates, is any better. After all, he was appointed by Bush too.\nFoley (FL) resigned from his post a couple weeks before elections. \nMakes you wonder, who's next. Cheney? Bush? \nMore to come in the next few months, if the Democrats have a backbone and push for invesigations.
932183
He was sacked (they call it resignation because it's less cruel) because he was the architect of the disastrously unsuccessful war in Iraq. This war, according to many exit-polls, was a principle reason for people voting Democrat.
954522
A democratic victory is an open invitation to attack us.