Hit it out of the park with bases loaded and you lose. Is this some Bizarro World Comic from the 50’s where everything is its opposite or is it just Bush world?
When Paul Wolfowitz predicted that there would be no ethnic conflict in Iraq, that we would be welcomed as liberators and that other countries like France would get involved in rebuilding that country at little cost to us, the snot-quaffed gnome was promoted to the world bank for his incompetence.
Remember General Eric Shinseki? Back in 2003 the former Army Chief of Staff was one of the first high ranking officers to challenge the official happy talk scenario given us by George W. Bush. He was absolutely right and paid the price for it.
In testimony before Congress, he stated that the Iraq operation would require "several hundred thousand troops." His assessment was based on 38 years of active military service which includes being Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans. In Bosnia, where Shinseki served as Commander of the Stabilization Force, NATO used 50,000 service members to police a population of 5 million people. Iraq's population in 2003 was over 26 million people. Do the math.
Rummy told us he was far off the mark, Wolfie told us he was far off the mark, Bush told us the mission was already accomplished. Guess who is gone. Guess who Bush still unequivocally supports.
It has taken quite a while for other Generals to step up to the microphone. I’m sure it takes more courage to stand up to the incompetent psychotics in the Administration in today’s military than to face an armed enemy and we can see the tide of slime begin to rise against them already, but the flag has been raised, a toehold gained – do we dare to hope?
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"do we dare hope?"
No.
Hope for what? A democrat neocon light? The only hope for the USA is that the public gets pissed enough to vote for a 3rd party reformer, and that the 3rd party also wins seats in congress.
The questions are 1. how bad will things need to get to bring us there? and 2. how will the 3rd party government defend itself against the subsequent military coup?
History may call Mr. Bush's appointment to the presidency a military coup, and if Mr. Gore couldn't do anything about it, it will have to be a very strong 3rd party. As least as strong as Iraq.
I'm not optimistic. The damage has been done and they've got two more years to make it even worse.
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