Just for the record…
February 27th, 2007 by Wil Robinson
From the Iraq Study Group Report: A Way Forward - A New Approach, page 73:
“We could, however, support a short-term redeployment or surge of American combat forces to stabilize Baghdad…if the U.S. commander in Iraq determines that such steps would be effective.”
So while Democrats bemoan the president and his newest Iraq plan, taking every opportunity to point out that Bush refuses to adhere to any of the ISG’s recommendations, this little tidbit somehow gets left out of their public posturing.
Not to mention the media, once again doing a crack-up job of reporting, failing to note that the “surge” everyone is resisting was one of the ISG’s recommendations.
The biggest problem with the Iraq strategy in 2007 is still there - the leadership. America needs a leader, one that isn’t tainted by the hawkish Neo-con plan to take over the parts of the world with valuable natural resources. No one will follow a liar into battle. Bush, Cheney and their entire administration have lost any and all credibility.
But it may be too late to gain American support.
The self-congratulating Democrats already went on their “we’re anti-war and peaceful so let’s withdrawal from Iraq and avoid US casualties but we don’t give a rat’s ass about the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis that are in this mess because we stood by and voted for a unnecessary war but it’s not our problem now“ rant.
Those that consider themselves the “liberals” in Washington have whipped up public sentiment to use for their own political power game.
Who’d they learn that from?
Meanwhile a suicide bomber attempted to blow up Dick Cheney in Afghanistan, killing 23 people - but no worries - Dick is safe. He was rushed to a bunker for a couple of hours to make sure he was unharmed.
“I think they clearly try to find ways to question the authority of the central government…striking with a suicide bomber, I suppose, is one way to do that. But it shouldn’t affect our behavior at all.”
Really? So hiding out in a bomb shelter for a couple of hours afterwards wasn’t “affecting your behavior?”
Oh yeah - this is coming from the guy who spent most of the first few months after September 11, 2001 in a bomb shelter, hiding from the real world and planning the numerous wars that he could wage now that the attack on America had given him his golden opportunity…
…A “new Pearl Harbor,” as some of those key players that helped him plan the Iraq invasion so eloquently stated it in their September, 2000 Project for a New American Century report.
Maybe hiding in a bunker in his own fantasy world is normal behavior.
Tags: War of Misinformation, suicide bomber, troops, Iraq War, new pearl harbor
You’re right about the leadership issue and I see this as no accident that there is a dearth of strength and talent. This sort of thing happened before your Civil War. When the leadership is not strong, then the power behind holds sway [read defense contracts et al].
For someone as evil, vile, and nefarious as that man, hiding in a bunker IS normal behaviour. When one satiates their lust/greed for wealth/power regardless of the cost to their fellow-man, it creates enemies.
What a shame it is, for a man to give up his freedom and sense of safety, for material gain.
No quiet walks on the beach, or through the parks. No running out on a whim for some ice cream with your wife. No enjoyment of being ‘one of the crowd’ at a ballgame. No taking rides through small-town America, stopping and visiting with locals at the many shops.
It may seem privileged to them, but to me it seems a ‘living Hell’.
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”
Mark 8:36-37
Nice last few words by Brother Tim.
Plus there’s now going to be another mini-surge of around 8,000 added to the existing 21,500 one.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2031822,00.html
As a “liberal” who supports the redeployment of troops I am not convinced that our withdrawal would ensure escalated sectarian violence. If we were to say, redeploy to a position just over the horizon as Barack Obama has suggested, if we did that while negotiating a broader multinational commitment to guarding against escalated violence perhaps we would remove some of the fuel that feeds the fires of discontent in that land. All sides seem to reject the occupying force in their land. Stated deadlines and objectives with a commitment to return with a multi-national force in the event of the mayhem some project might work but we won’t know unless we try.
PS, You are due for another post Wil!
Wil– Are they not giving you Internet access in Gitmo?
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