December 18, 2006 at 13:49:09

Bush's Mad-dash to History's Dustbin

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Again, we see the tragic blowback from reckless decision-making which has produced lethal unintended consequences.

The Bush-Rumsfeld counterinsurgency strategy has been a complete flop. It has ignited a cycle of violence which will persist for years and created the very real prospect that the Iraqi bloodstorm will cross borders and sweep through the entire region.

America's puppets throughout the Middle East are now gazing on nervously as Bush's poor judgment continues to destabilize the country and fuel the growing mayhem.

The basic problem is that Bush listens to no one. He appears to be the last man in America who still clings to the spurious notion that "victory" is achievable.

He has totally ignored the results of the midterm elections as well as the Baker report, and is steaming full-speed ahead with his own plan to increase troop levels and recapture Baghdad.

Hip Hooray! Victory is just around the corner!

Only 4% of the American people want to pursue a "stay the course" strategy, but Bush doesn't care. He's surrounded himself with militarists and neocons who only reiterate the same crackpot theory that was first put forward in a policy paper (written by neocons) for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; "A Clean Break: a New Strategy for Securing the Realm". The plan is nothing but a madcap prescription for transforming the entire Middle into a balkanized hodge-podge of warring factions, armed militias and Islamic extremists killing each other well into the next millennia.

The pro-Israel hawks in Bush's entourage love the idea, but the "sane" elders in the political establishment (like Baker) know that its sheer lunacy.

Who, in their "right mind", would deliberately topple regimes and destabilize an entire region believing that they would eventually come out on top of the heap.

The plan is little more than the fanciful musings of a high-school sophomore.

Still, according to an article in yesterday's New York Times, Bush is still following the same suicidal scheme. It says, "The Bush administration is working to form a coalition of Sunni Arab nations and a moderate Shiite government in Iraq, along with the US and Europe, to stand against ‘Iran, Syria and the terrorists,' another senior administration official said Tuesday." (Helene Cooper, NY Times)

"Stand against Iran, Syria and the terrorists"?

This isn't the Baker plan, or the Congress' plan, or the plan the American people demanded in the midterm elections. Those have all been tossed on the scrap-heap. This is the neocon plan; "A Clean Break"; articulated almost word for word from the original document.

Bush hasn't changed a thing! He is still carrying out an agenda that runs contrary to the will of the American people as well as his father's most trusted advisors. He's following a strategy that was clearly intended to establish Israeli regional hegemony.

Its crazy.

Baghdad, Bloody Baghdad

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