The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission | Iraq: When Will Progress Be Acknowledged As Significant? | Comments http://erlc.com/ This feed provides all comments on "Iraq: When Will Progress Be Acknowledged As Significant?." en web-master@erlc.com ℗ & © 2008 ERLC Comment 1 http://erlc.com/article/iraq-when-will-progress-be-acknowledged-as-significant#comment1 http://erlc.com/article/iraq-when-will-progress-be-acknowledged-as-significant#comment1 We have no business in Iraq. One soldier dead it too many.

]]> Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:25:12 CST Comment 2 http://erlc.com/article/iraq-when-will-progress-be-acknowledged-as-significant#comment2 http://erlc.com/article/iraq-when-will-progress-be-acknowledged-as-significant#comment2 It is fashionable to bash our President.
It is also wrong to blindly support a President because one is of the same political party.
It seems that you are guilty of neither and instead are giving approproiate respect and honor to our President and to our military. You are doing so by telling us the truth (something in short supply, it seems to me).

When will progress be viewed as significant by the critics? Of course this is a rhetorical question. We all know that if it comes, it will likely be long after the fact. Instead, in the present, we might expect very different responses such a changing of the subject, such as “We have no business in Iraq.” That may be a valid point - worth ongoing discussion. And yet, in this context it seems inappropriate. Wouldn’t it be better to first of all acknowledge the progress made? Why would one not read and article like this and interact with the facts presented? Wouldn’t that be a better opener to further conversation?

]]> Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:03:51 CST Comment 3 http://erlc.com/article/iraq-when-will-progress-be-acknowledged-as-significant#comment3 http://erlc.com/article/iraq-when-will-progress-be-acknowledged-as-significant#comment3 Somehow I don’t find it surprising that when we put 10,000 of the best-trained and best-equipped soldiers in the world into a limited geographic area, they are able to reduce the level of violence.  Unfortunately it is not possible to have real progress in an ill-conceived, poorly managed, misguided attempt to force another country to accept that the our president knows what is best for them. The only progress that will ever be significant in Iraq is when we begin to make progress to bring our troops home.  They shouldn’t have been there in the first place and they don’t belong there now.

]]> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:45:47 CST Comment 4 http://erlc.com/article/iraq-when-will-progress-be-acknowledged-as-significant#comment4 http://erlc.com/article/iraq-when-will-progress-be-acknowledged-as-significant#comment4 Dr. Land - Do you really expect us to simply take your word for it that things are “getting better” in Iraq? If so, you are truly disrepecting our intelligence. As an evangelical Christian, it shames me that Christian spokespersons such as yourself have put your stamp of approval on this tragic war. Do you really beleive that the families in Iraq who are living in misery and fear, and the Iraqi and American families who have lost loved ones (for what?) would agree with your sunny assessment? I seriously doubt it!

]]> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:55:55 CST Comment 5 http://erlc.com/article/iraq-when-will-progress-be-acknowledged-as-significant#comment5 http://erlc.com/article/iraq-when-will-progress-be-acknowledged-as-significant#comment5 RE: Doug, post 4:

No need to take Land’s word for it. I don’t believe he expects you to take his word for it.

He’s just reiterating what is now old news (by a month, at least).  Even the Washington Post agrees:

“...the rapidly improving conditions should allow U.S. commanders to make some welcome adjustments—and it ought to mandate an already-overdue rethinking by the “this-war-is-lost” caucus in Washington...” - “The Iraqi Upturn”, June 1, 2008

...and one can hardly make the claim that The Post ever put a “stamp of approval on this tragic war.”

Whether you approve or disapprove of the U.S. entry, presence, action, or whatever… the tangible success of American and Iraqi troops over the course of the surge is factually undeniable.

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own fact” - the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan

]]> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:28:59 CST Comment 6 http://erlc.com/article/iraq-when-will-progress-be-acknowledged-as-significant#comment6 http://erlc.com/article/iraq-when-will-progress-be-acknowledged-as-significant#comment6 RE: Doug
You are wrong if you think the families of the soldiers who gave their lives in Iraq do not see this progress as a great thing.  Their loved ones did not die in vain.  I live in a military community and every soldier that I have personally talked to who has return from Iraq has been proud that they went and “made a dfference.” They applaud our president for sending us to Iraq and would gladly do it again.  So unless you have walked in the shoes of these families, do not speak for them.

]]> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:54:33 CST Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:55:52 CST Comment 7 http://erlc.com/article/iraq-when-will-progress-be-acknowledged-as-significant#comment7 http://erlc.com/article/iraq-when-will-progress-be-acknowledged-as-significant#comment7 Every active duty soldier I talk to have stories and reports that contradict biased news reports that the United States is not making a positive difference in the war on terrorism. The liberal press has an agenda.

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