September 5, 2006 at 12:30:09

Bush: Escalating threats in Iraq and elsewhere, but we're 'safer'

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"No one will benefit as much as Iran from peace and stability in Iraq," he said Tuesday.

Peace and stability in Iraq is they very thing that Bush and all of his militarism haven't managed to achieve, despite all of the blather from the administration about spreading democracy and promoting freedom. There is a dangerous denial that is being practiced in the administration campaign to portray their invasion and continued occupation of Iraq as a military and ideological success, and conversely, to portray Iraq as a cauldron of terror that would escalate into more of a threat to the U.S. if we withdraw our troops.

What's missing from the administration strategy is any admission that they've done anything wrong at all in their diversion from the hunt in Afghanistan for bin-Laden in their zeal to invade and occupy Iraq. There's no accounting from the Bush administration for the $8 billion a month they are diverting to Iraq, dwarfing the amount of resources put toward the original mission outlined in the initial 'Authorization for Use of Military Force- Sept. 18, 2001' which directs our military to apprehend the perps they say are responsible for the 9-11 violence.

There has been no accountability for the failures of the Bush administration in achieving their own stated goals in their five year 'War on Terror', and for their debacle in Iraq. In the last month, 75 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq. Over the course of the occupation, since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, over 2,656 U.S. soldiers have lost their lives.

These soldiers are now sacrificing their lives and livelihoods in defense of the propped up Maliki regime; fighting and dying on one side of a multi-fronted civil war in Iraq. Bush and his republican party are in a desperate campaign to hold on to power to enable them to 'stay the course' in the face of their administration's military, ideological, and material failure to contain or eliminate the terrorist threats to our nation that they have defined; and to continue on the same path of failure and escalation of violence in their bloody occupation of Iraq.

As the Democrat's unified message to Bush states, "this current path - for our military, for the Iraqi people, and for our security - is neither working, nor making us more secure." We desperately need to change course. Bush isn't willing, so, we have to change it for him.

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Ron Fullwood, is an activist from Columbia, Md. and the author of the book 'Power of Mischief' : Military Industry Executives are Making Bush Policy and the Country is Paying the Price

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