* Why did some 2000 Americans have to die over that period of time, if all we are doing is something we could have done two years ago?
* Why are Democrats "cut and runners" for proposing a phased withdrawal, but Republicans are not "cut and runners" for proposing the same thing?
* If the success of this plan involves negotiating with the insurgents and giving them--including the Baathists we supposedly overthrew in 2003--a role in the future Iraq, doesn't that mean we lost the war after all?
If so, then what did the other several hundred Americans die for in the early days of the invasion and occupation?
If the US has been "stupid and arrogant" in its Iraq policies, as administration sources are finally admitting, just who are the stupid and arrogant people we are talking about here?
If those "stupid and arrogant" people are the president, the vice president, the secretary of defense and the national security adviser/secretary of state, what is to be the consequence of their stupiditdy and arrogance--particularly given that this stupidity and arrogance has cause the deaths of as many as 600,000 innocent Iraqi civilians and 3000 Americans? Enough of the game playing.
It's time for a little truth and consequences in America.
Dave Lindorff is co-author, with Barbara Olshansky, of "The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office (St. Martin's Press, June 2006). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net and Counterpunch.org
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