Thom Hartman Says It’s An Occupation - Not A War
This guy is really brilliant and I agree with so much he has to say, but how does something so obvious and simple deserve a headline? I mean doesn’t EVERYONE know that?
Well none of our presidential candidates understand this simple concept but they’re not qualified to be president. Now we have an actual story explaining the difference between a war and an occupation. Bout time and is there any chance the candidates or even the MSM will pick up this fact and begin to change the tone of our endless speeches about the ‘war?’
Wars end in victory or surrender. Occupations end with withdrawals. Thom Hartmann made the point on his radio show this week that as long as the Republicans — and the media and even the Democratic candidates — continue to frame the Iraq occupation as a “war,” John McCain and other proponents of endless occupation will continue to falsely claim that leaving Iraq would be “surrendering to al Qaeda.”