December 18, 2006 at 13:49:09

Bush's Mad-dash to History's Dustbin

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By Mike Whitney (about the author) Page 4 of 5 page(s)

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What does Bush hope to accomplish re-fighting the same battles over and over again?

Over 90% of the Iraqis want the US out now. 63% believe that it is acceptable to kill American soldiers.

How does he expect to change these figures and win over the "hearts and minds" of working class Iraqis?

Increasing the number of troops won't change anything. In fact, the numbers have gotten increasingly worse with every new survey.

So, what's the plan; surround the entire country with concertina wire and gun-towers and pick off anything that moves?

The Gaza-model? Is that the plan?

Gimmie a break!

They hate us. We're a Christian army in a Muslim land and we'll never be accepted. Period. Bush's father's friends knew that. That's why they were against it from the beginning. They knew that we would never establish security. They knew that we would always be "occupiers" in a hostile land.

So, why can't Bush see what everyone else sees?

650,000 Iraqis have already died in this ego-driven fiasco. 2 million people have fled the country, and over 1 million have been internally displaced. 70% unemployment, massive malnutrition, unreliable electric power, and an absolute security-vacuum from Mosul to Basra, from Baghdad to Falluja.

Enough is enough!

Martial law is not liberation. Military occupation is not "democracy".

Enter James Baker

Bush is making a big mistake if he thinks he can just brush-off Baker like the antiwar crowd. Baker speaks for a broad cross-section of establishment elites and corporate big-wigs. These are not the kind of guys who like to be ignored. My guess, is that they've seen enough of this bullsh**. If Bush goes ahead with this insanity of increasing the number of troops in Baghdad and further damaging their "beloved military", they're going to start figuring out a way to get rid of him.

The Middle East has been America's "Cash Cow" for 60 years. Baker and Co. have played a big part in carefully assembling the requisite cogs and gears that make it a smooth-running imperial machine. They have no intention of standing bye while Genralissimo Bush pours gas over the whole region and sets it on fire.

They can't let that happen and they won't let that happen.

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