Tuesday, June 28, 2005

bush's iraq speech

"It has been difficult, but we are prevailing." The President's conclusion about Iraq. The understatement in the first half of this quote isn't this President's usual style -- but the dissembling (dissassembling?) in the second part is normal. Not sure how we can call the current state of affairs in Iraq anything better than a stalemate at best.

A few comments: the audience of 700 troops in Fort Bragg were surprisingly sedate -- no "hoo-ahs" and only one rather perfunctory interruption for applause, and a moderate hand at the end. They were polite but not wildly enthusiastic no matter what Fox and the rest of the GOP media machine tell you.

Bush again links Iraq to September 11. The big lie continues straight from the top dog's mouth. Please tell me you don't believe this.

Bush said he would send more troops to Iraq if his commanders told him he needs more, but they haven't asked for more. Of course they haven't -- they know better. Remember the fate of General Eric Shinseki, who before the invasion had the nerve to assess that the occupation of Iraq would require "several hundred thousand troops?" He was put out to pasture.

The President did make reference to the day Iraq can defend itself and "we can leave". Early test of the "declare victory and get out strategy?" Who knows. Haven't heard anything resembling a coherent strategy for what we're doing in Iraq now apart from killing Iraqis.

Oh and by the way -- no mention of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Gosh, whatever happened to them?

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