U.S. failures in Iraq - "no more American dead" after next March

The chimp-in-chief tells Iraq "Bring It Off!": "Perhaps the only hope lies in the story going around town that President Bush has told the Pentagon he wants "no more American dead" after next March."


U.S. failures in Iraq set stage for deeper trouble

Georgie Anne Geyer, Universal Press Syndicate. Georgie Anne Geyer is a syndicated columnist based in Washington
Published August 29, 2003

WASHINGTON -- In only the last week, the war in Iraq has entered a phase characterized by two amazingly contradictory developments.

First, it is generally accepted (except by the war's avid authorities) that the reasons for invading Iraq were false. Second, the war party around the White House and the Pentagon are responding to their incredible failures of judgment not by modifying their policies in the Middle East, but by doing more and still more of the same. And in one of those bizarre turns of history, their acts have brought them (and us) within a hair's breadth of creating exactly the situation they claimed forced us to go to war in the first place.
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Finally, the idea is creeping in that, looking at the entire Middle East, the next "solution" will be to put American troops into Israel to fight Hamas and other radical Palestinian groups. (The usually supremely rational Republican Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) brought this up on television recently.)

Such an act, of course, would pit the United States irrevocably against the entire Arab and Islamic world--and encourage and create anti-American terrorism on a scale yet unseen.

In Iraq, American authorities have become so desperate for information about the country they pretend to rule that, after foolishly disbanding the Iraqi army and leaving tens of thousands of men roaming the streets, they are recruiting the hated intelligence agents and torturers of the Saddam Hussein government, the Mukhabarat , to work with us.

This administration shows no indication of changing its ways; thus the situation can only grow worse.

Perhaps the only hope lies in the story going around town that President Bush has told the Pentagon he wants "no more American dead" after next March. By then, the electoral campaign will be well under way, and perhaps zealotry will give way to reality--or at least to a change in administration.

link http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/oped/chi-0308290157aug29,1,942691.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed

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Glommed from a fav anon site.

Get rid of all the reporters?

It appears that junior is getting worried.

As long as the killing stops when we get close to the election.

just nuts. a very serious screw loose. troops to fight hamas? that's rich.

...they are crimes of knowingly and specifically intending to do wrong.