Now THAT'S a Really Bad Idea!

Tommy Thompson Governor of Wisconsin announced he is a candidate for President in 2008. One of his major foreign policy ideas concerns the Iraq War.

Here's Governor Tommy's Big Plan, courtesy of the LA Times :

-- He would have "a completely different Iraq strategy" from the president's. Thompson said he would "demand" that the Iraqi government vote as to whether it wanted the U.S. to remain in the country. If the answer were yes, "it immediately gives a degree of legitimacy." If the answer were no, "We would get out, absolutely. It's a duly elected government."

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Great, Tommy. You'd let the Iraqi folks vote, assuming they could get to the polling places these days--and our forces will just keep sending people over there to bleed and get maimed and drive around being blown up in their Humvees until 51 percent of Iraqis who get to the polls without being blown up themselves say it's okay for us to leave.

Bullocks!

Our President and the Congressional majority in Congress can't agree on the course of this war, which has already taken away and mutilated too many good men and women in my humble and non-expert opinion...so Gov. Cheesehead would have the Arabs and Kurds decide if and when we stay or begin to pull out ground troops.

I say rather let's debate and decide that critical matter in THIS country, the United States of America (please see a World Atlas or Google the place if you're not sure if you live there.) When and how we surge or withdraw troops and in what number is not up for a plebisite in Anbar Province. Those in military service are OUR people; they don't belong to the whims of Prime Minister Malaiki or those other hunkered-down and uncompromising tribal and religious power brokers in Mesopotemia. The "liberated" Iraqis haven't even really begun to deal with the problems of oil revenue and power-sharing even though they have been free of Saddam for four years! Their old feuds will someday--soon I hope--belong to them alone.

Bad idea. But thanks for the suggestion, Tommy.