Bush Has No New Iraq Strategy. Zero.
Below are a few clips from one of the many articles currently extant on Bush’s handling of Iraq. It’s pretty clear that Bush hasn’t announced a new strategy because he doesn’t have one. He’s going to keep doing what he’s been doing, only more so instead of less so and he’s getting rid of everyone who disagrees with him.
“In a Friday morning briefing at the White House, Mr Bush confirmed that he has asked John Negroponte, America’s first overall intelligence chief, to join the State Department as Secretary Condoleezza Rice’s deputy. The move is seen as a demotion for Mr Negroponte who, as national intelligence director, enjoyed the same status as that of a Cabinet member.”
Negroponte is sceptical of the “Troop Surge” so now he will be saying “Yes, ma’am” to Condoleeeezzzza. Did I spell that right?
“Mr Bush also announced that he has nominated Vice-Admiral John McConnell, a former National Security Adviser, to replace Mr Negroponte as the intelligence chief. Admiral McConnell has almost 40 years of experience of US intelligence work.”
McConnell is NOT against the troop increase.
“Friday’s nominations are expected to be first of a series of reshuffles that will replace America’s top two generals in Iraq and Ambassador to the UN.”
The top two generals are Gen. George Casey and Gen. John Abazaid, both of whom are against a troop “surge”. Their replacements are in favor of it.
“President Bush is also expected to announce a temporary deployment of 20,000 to 40,000 extra American troops in Iraq next week.”
Temporary as in at least 18 months continued deployment in Iraq for at least 20,000 more soldiers.
“Mr Bush told a briefing at the White House on Thursday that he will announce his decision next week about how to proceed with the nearly four-year-old Iraq war, including whether to bolster existing forces with more troops.”
In other words, he’s already decided to escalate this war in the middle of a civil war, against the advice of his most able advisors and against the will of about 75% of the American people.
Not only that, but he’s fired Ms. Miers, his lawyer, and hired some really big guns as well as 4 more White House counsel assistants. Democrats have promised a vigorous oversight of the war’s management and Bush has hired heavyweights capable of resisting the looming Democrat onslaught. Bush absolutely will not meet anyone even halfway, and his arrogant stubbornness is continuing to cost America dearly.
Bush fully intends to utterly ignore everyone and persue a course that has been acknowledged as a lost cause by our best military minds. There was a time when this war could have been won, if he had followed the advice of his generals. Instead he persued his personal agenda with the willing assistance of Donald Rumsfeld. When this became such a glaring, blatant disaster that it could no longer be hidden, he got rid of Rumsfeld as if it were all that mans fault. In the meantime, many of his very best generals had resigned the military in disgust.
2007 promises to be a year of disasters. Our Foreign Policy is shredded, our military leaders are diminished and in disagreement, Islamism is becoming more aggressive and so is the backlash, even nature is coming apart. Bush is an idiot. He has governed like an idiot, his decisions have been idiotic and they continue to be idiotic. He has even alienated his own party, something that wasn’t thought possible two years ago, and we still have two full years of suffering under this moronic tyrant to go.
The Democrats have stated that they won’t impeach him. How foolish of them. I do hope they change their minds, and quickly, even though I don’t think Dick (Shoot-in-the-face) Halliburton-Cheney will be much improvement.
January 6th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
if they go after Bush and Cheney at the same time wouldnt Pelosi become President?
January 6th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
LOL. Any more ugly thoughts? S’cuse me while I go shudder….
January 7th, 2007 at 4:38 am
Islamic Radicals have accomplished their goal. Inner strife. Regardless of strategies, the main strategy must be to stay in Iraq. We pull out and Israel has a serious problem, and Islam will consider or desertion of the region a victory for them, which will then give renewed earnest to the radicals in places like Somalia and southeast Asia. Yeah, with Nancy in Congress screaming cut and run, I am shuddering.
January 7th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Agree going into Iraq was a total disaster driven by dogma, cowboy gung ho spirit and a ridiculous overestimate of US military power (given the constraints that apply to a cvilised nation that is) instead of a realistic assessment of the likely outcome. Hate to say it, but that attitude has mostly governed US foreign policy since WWII. I always wonder if Castro might have been brought into the western fold with better handling.
All the same, having created the mess, I am not sure that just pulling out without any effort to retrieve the situation is the best solution and the last commenter may be right. No idea personally, but hopefully there will now be the realistic assessments we should have had before there is any more precipitate action.
January 7th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
My point is not “cut and run”, nor is it “stay the course”. Staying the course could well become a 100-year war. Cutting and running now will let the whole Middle East plunge into war. I’m not a general and I’m not offering a solution to this boondoggle.
My point is that Bush went into this war with no real plan. He let Rumsfeld run the show and ignored our generals, and flat refused to do what the generals said we had to do to win. Now we have this horrible mess, virtually unwinnable at this point, and instead of now, finally, listening, he is dumping those who disagree with him as if he were some sort of Roman Emperor.
My point is that George W. Bush is a smug, slow-witted, inept tyrant who has repeatedly and consistently lied to us and the world, and made the world a worse place instead of a better one. This isn’t a party issue, there have been some particularly inept and corrupt Democrat Presidents as well. I do believe George Bush Jr. is the single worst President this country has ever had, regardless of party. Instead of having more confidence in the future, because of him I now fear for the future.
January 8th, 2007 at 7:43 am
Rasta, Yep Bush has got 2 years to undo what he has done.
Hard to undo nothing. The Bush Admin started out great, went to no so good and I still defended him, Now he is just a step above Carter in the history books…..
This idiot not only does not know to run a war, but he is allowing another country to invade us right under his nose. He is a donk in Republican clothing.
January 8th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
That’s the 6 unforgivable errors of George W Bush:
1 – In 2001, he didn’t attack Islamism as the real enemy in 11 of September. Nothing did for stop the islamfascists of ACLU and CAIR destroy christianism and force the students to swallow the Islamic shit in the classrooms. And still permits islamonazists publications that prepare the war against the population disseminated by the Saudi Arabia in libraries of mosques, streets and bookstores for American muslims, preaching the destruction of America with anti-American antichristian, anti-Jewish, misogynistic, jihadist and supremacist ideology. Obvious: Bush family has oil business with the Saudi real family. Can we trust in a leader which have interests with the enemy?
2 – In 2002, he didn’t denounce the responsibility of the government Clinton for CIA errors that enabled the 11 of September. The investigator of the Department of Defense that was following a trail that would have avoided the attack, the lieutenant-colonel Tony Shaffer, simply was prevented from pass the information to the FBI, that like this could not dismantle the Al-Qaeda cell. It stopped why? Because former president Clinton centralized the straight control of all the organs of security and blocked deliberately the communications among them. CIA, FBI and other agencies then were driving parallel inquiries about the illegal funds of given campaign to the candidate Clinton by the Chinese army one and the subsequent favors that the very grateful president lent to the service of Chinese espionage. Without exchange of information, the investigators did not be able to join the threads of the story line.
3 – In 2003, he did not announce that the weapons of destruction in batter of Saddam Hussein were found. They are more of 500 – enough for kill for poisoning the inhabitants of some twenty American cities. Republican senator Rick Santorum, using of the privileges of the Freedom of Information Act (”Law of the Liberty of Information”), obtained from the military secret service the complete relation. Reporter Richard Miniter already to have revealed the existence of those weapons, in its book “Disinformation: 22 Average Myths that Undermine the War on Terror”. The strange point in the episode is that senator Santorum has had of pull out by force an information that Bush government should be screaming in all the media.
4 – In 2004, he did not condemn UNO by the scandal of corruption in the Oil by Food Program, involving Saddam Hussein and Koffi Annan and his son Kojo, and the governments of countries as France, Russia, Germany, China… Beyond others crimes of the UNO, that became the worst enemy of the U.S.A. by the simple fact that it shelters or protects all the anti-American and terrorist dictatorships in her Commissions.
5 – In 2005, he did not defend himself neither attacked the Democrats responsible by the calamity of the hurricane Katrina: the governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco, and the mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin.
6 – AND in 2006, was discovered that he, as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) signed an agreement for dissolve the borders between the U.S.A., Canada and the Mexico, practically eliminating the American nation like independent political unit. The idea already was old, but then a citizen appealed to the Freedom of Information Act, obliging the government it divulge the documents about the matter. Then already there was conservatives calling Bush openly of “treacherous”. The report can be read in the site cfr.org.
January 9th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Well, our chance to convince Nancy Pelosi to Impeach Bush/Cheney is this Monday Jan. 15th..
Pelosi most likely said impeachment was “off the table” to remove any appearance of conflict-of-interest that would arise if she were thrust into the presidency as a result of the coming impeachment.
What we need to do is to pressure Pelosi not to interfere with impeachment maneuverings within her party. Sending her Do-It-Yourself impeachments legitimizes her when she is forced to join the impeachment movement in the future.
Sacks and sacks of mail are about to arrive in Nancy Pelosi’s office initiating impeachment via the House of Representative’s own rules this Monday January 15th. This legal document is as binding as if a State or if the House itself passed the impeachment resolution (H.R. 635).
There’s a little known and rarely used clause of the “Jefferson Manual” in the rules for the House of Representatives which sets forth the various ways in which a president can be impeached. Only the House Judiciary Committee puts together the Articles of Impeachment, but before that happens, someone has to initiate the process.That’s where we come in. In addition to a House Resolution (635), or the State-by-State method, one of the ways to get impeachment going is for individual citizens like you and me to submit a memorial. ImpeachforPeace.org has created a new memorial based on one which was successful in impeaching a federal official in the past. You can find it on their website as a PDF.
You can initiate the impeachment process and simultaneously help to convince Pelosi to follow through with the process. Do-It-Yourself by downloading the memorial, filling in the relevant information (your name, state, etc.), and sending it in. Be a part of history.
http://ImpeachForPeace.org/ImpeachNow.html
January 10th, 2007 at 3:08 am
Yeah, well, the big problem I have with this impeachment plan, and it’s a huge problem, is that if Bush and Cheney were both gone, Pelosi would be President. That would be unacceptable.