Comments on: Bush: 'Not Going To Pull Our Troops'

Under Increased Pressure, Bush Says Only Victory Will Get U.S. Out Of Iraq

[alphaa10-2009]

Bush's RearGuard Exit from Iraq-- 2
Al-Maliki has put enormous effort into Diplomacy of High Level Reconciliation with Iran, promoting an understanding that the two nations-- with millions of war dead between them just a generation ago-- need never fight again. And
Ahmadinejad, of course, could not wait to respond in kind (prompting nervous warnings from Washington about "interference" in Iraq). This fence-mending scenario leaves Bush and the American interest completely adrift in a MidEast
dominated by a Russian-Iranian oil-power axis.

Yet, if only for counter-balance alone, al-Maliki must simultaneously appeal to Syria and the Saudis. Though Shia, al-Maliki does not relish becoming a slave to Iran and its ambitions. Nor can he believe his regime would last very long if
he ever loses Iraq's delicate balance of MidEast power. At heart, al-Maliki is hopeful of an Iraqi future, unsullied by foreign (American) or other (insert label here) adventurism, at peace with all its neighbors-- yet he knows his own days
could be cut short with the burst of gunfire which killed Lebanon's Gemayel or the kind of bomb which took out Hariri. Without sympathy for Saddam, what he was or what he did to millions, it is now clearer to most why any Iraqi head of state might believe he must be a power unto himself.

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Speaking of power and legitimacy back in Washington, Bush desperately hopes a new campaign of "diplomacy", will help save his pretige and GOP regulars in 2008. But this kind of diplomacy is like asking for napkins while plundering a
dumpster for food-- there are not a lot of options left for Bush, except resolutely to lapse into a state of denial, again. We recall this administration was driven into a frenzy of neocon ambition by knotheads like Perle, Wolfowitz and
Adelman, who believed Bush need not worry about what others call "reality", since his bold, decisive action instantly creates its own.

For Bush to hit upon diplomacy as the measure of his final two years is simply desperation mistaken for genius under pressure. A model for that kind of thinking is Hitler's moment of inspiration about how to wage his naval war against Britain.
In 1939, the entire German fleet was blockaded by the Royal Navy just as tightly as 25 years before. In a flash, Hitler understood he might build U-boat fleets to bypass British warships and directly assault convoys feeding Britain. For Hitler, this finesse of fate helped convince him he was an unstoppable force of nature. For Bush, lying about diplomacy while arming tactical aircraft to assault Iran is an eerie repetition
of his windup for Iraq in 2003.

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What America must do is hold Bush to his diplomatic posture. No more veiled threats or saber-rattling, semi-public discussions of the best attack method against 40 underground Iranian WMD-building bunker-plants. The urgency in 2006
with which Bush whipped out diplomacy leads many to believe it is merely another "Look, there is Mars!" distraction from the painful fact of presidential impotence. At the first opportunity, this adolescent bus driver will make every
mistake all over again, if allowed to believe he rules by fiat as commander of the armed forces.

With no undue respect, only when people understand what a model of personal limitations and imperial greed they helped elect in 2004 (they did not elect him in 2000) do the native drums start beating in the distant background, and people like
Karl Rove start sweating about a real exit strategy. In the GOP playbook, angry,
aroused and stupid natives are infinitely worse than placid, stupid natives.

[fascistusa]

Impeach Lord Bush & King Cheney.

Get us out of Iraq.

Keep us out of Iran.

Restore TRUE news... no more NBCCBSABCFOXCNN PROPOGANDA.

Restore DEMOCRACY.

[feelfree1]

"In both Baltic countries, the president saluted their persistence in eventually prevailing over Soviet occupiers and said it was a good example for both Afghanistan and Iraq."

If our puppet-Fuhrer had any sense of history, he would know that Afghanistan was the graveyard of the Soviet Union, as well as the rise of (former?) CIA operative, Osama bin Laden, to whom we owed a debt of gratitude for helping us defeat the Soviets.

Iraq and Afghanistan represent the dual graveyards for the Uber-fascistic and dead-brained, Project for a New American Century. I only hope that we can bring those involved in this despicable "project" to justice, for so deeply disgracing and damaging our country with their shameful and ill conceived misadventures, before it's too late, &/or before they escape.

[akarsno]

I agree with gdmoore2 about that comment!

Clinton stuff was peanuts compared to what is happening to the lives of American soldiers over in Iraq and Afganistan and the lives of American people travelling overseas.
Now they have to look behind their backs if they're going to be kidnap or ransom cause of this president!
He has made ... the world unsafe for anyone in that manner!

[fascistusa]

People are FINALLY catching on!!!

America is a FASCIST NATION RULED BY THE RICH.

REVOLT.

[firststate]

After consulting with all his advisers who read books without pictures via 3way calling, fearless leader announced the determination that, "there is no civil war in Iraq. There is absolutely nothing civil about the way they are killing each other."

He is either dumb as dirt or he has a pair made of cast iron to say some of the things he manages to say without either laughing or crying.

The idea of sending him to wikipedia for a definition of civil war is a good idea, but he steadfastly refuses to go to wikipedia until that nation changes its policies regarding terorism.

[gayathiest]

Put Saddam back in charge, he knew how to keep things in order. When he was in command there was peace and order. Yes, he was a ruthless dictator. Maybe now we can see why such an individual is needed to rule this country.

[akarsno]

I think all things were done is good faith in some sense but not when so much blood is already spilled.
Bring your troops home. You would need them for another cause next time, maybe for a better cause next time.
Americans and all the other nations need to have their families back. So much much has happened .... in the last 6 years.
It is time to heal each nation on their own and think of other ways to live in peace.
ANd for the families who have sacrifice to heal.
Send the troops home please!