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As the Bush Administration stumbles from one disaster, scandal and corruption investigation into another, the looming political/legal noose continues moving closer to the necks of Bush, Cheney, Rove, Gonzales and the rest of the White House bunker crew. Let's start off with the Constant Disaster: "SURGING" TO CATASTROPHE Despite the illusionary bloviating from McCain and Cheney about how well the expanding war-escalation is going in Iraq, the true depths of Bush's military fiasco abroad can be understood not only by journalists' detailed reports in-country, but also from news gleaned elsewhere. Such as: * At least three four-star generals have refused Bush's offer of serving as the "war czar" over the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Question: Don't we have a Commander-in-Chief, Secretary of Defense, and General Petraeus for those jobs? Why another level of decision-making? The only reasonable explanations: Under CheneyBush, there is no workable policy and nobody who can make a square peg fit into a round hole; Cheney, Bush and Rove don't fully trust Bob Gates; a "war czar" would provide somebody else for CheneyBush to blame for the disasters they have initiated. * West Point graduates are seeking employment outside the military/war zones. No sane up-and-coming young officer wants anything to do with the Administration's reckless imperialism. * There is increasing open-opposition to the CheneyBush war policies inside the military by serving troops and officers, as there has been for years within the Pentagon and even among the Joint Chiefs of Staff. * The extension of soldiers' tour of Iraq duty by three months, and the dispatching of 13,000 National Guard troops abroad, is stirring up even more anger and resentment by those brave warriors and their put-upon families at home. * The poll ratings of Bush and the Republicans with regard to Iraq are not rising; indeed, in some polls, they are sinking even lower as the situation deteriorates. As the 2008 election draws nearer, Republicans will be running at full speed away from association with CheneyBush and their disastrous war policies. Those GOPers want to keep their jobs, and they see where the American people are on this war and how the Democrats are benefitting from that sense of anger and revulsion at the Bush Administration. THE "LOST" WHITE HOUSE E-MAILS The "missing" e-mails scandal, which overlaps with the more-developed one involving the fired U.S. Attorneys, is growing and threatens to take down a whole lot of high-level Administration officials, not the least of whom is Karl Rove. We don't yet know what might be learned from the so-called "lost" e-mails, but even the little we do know helps fill in the informational blanks.
www.crisispapers.org Bernard Weiner, Ph.D. in government & international relations, has taught at universities in California and Washington, worked for two decades as a writer-editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, and currently serves as co-editor of The Crisis Papers (www.crisispapers.org).
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