Reply #4: Staying the course with a cut and run strategery [View All]

The way I heard it yesterday, Bush's cowboy rhetoric about total VICTORY now contains a subtle loophole that allows his vainglorious invasion campaign to declare victory while cutting and running at the same time.

That loophole is the comment he made that he'll listen to "his commanders" rather than pursue his policy of total victory through political schemes. To me, this translate as a probable pullout over the next year or so -- recommended by his commanders, consequent to a glowing report on the success of the mission, followed by a total media blackout on conditions in Iraq. (Probably going to need a whole lineup of lost, kidnapped, or run-away blonds to pull it off properly though.)

This way he can still ride his hobby horse into the sunset, imagining his claim to victory at the say-so of his commanders is legit in the eyes of the world.

No personal responsibility here for Dimson. His commanders will say he won -- so it'll be really really real and not political. So no one will be able to call him a big fat failure...

Zzzz...OK.

That's what this so-called "realistic alignment" is all about here I think. And I do believe he's capable of trying something this transparent.

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