Reply #16: Bush trumpets "victory" as an option. Bush is firmly in a military model [View All]

He still promotes the Iraq invasion as something that will ultimately lead to great things. None of Bush's Democratic critics that I am paying attention to see Iraq that way. Some talk about a possibility of ultimately defeating the insurgency movement, but when they do so it is not focused primarily on military measures, it is about conditions under which the Sunnis would cooperate inside of an Iraqi government rather than attack it from the outside. It was racist in my opinion to invade Iraq. It is not racist to have hope that an internal Iraq arrangement that allowed the various factions to coexist without civil war might still be possible. The major factions inside of Iraq still have some hope for that themselves. That is why negotiations between some Iraq insurgency elements and the interim government there continue. That is why many more Sunnis are leaning toward full participation in the next round of elections there, and why agreements were reached between all major factions (except Al Quada) at the recent Arab League brokered meetings. Hope may be flickering but it is not yet dead.

Bush blathers about "Victory!". All I hope for is a possibility that Iraq may yet avoid a full scale no holds barred civil war with neighboring states intervening directly in the fighting.