Welcome every body, I am President Bush and we are all gathered here to celebrate the victory of US/ coalition forces in Iraq... ‘Absolutely we’re winning.’ This was the case just days before the November elections.
Then came the words ‘We’re not winning, we’re not losing’ and now “Victory in Iraq is achievable,” Oh! Wait... did I put it in the reverse order... I guess... I didn’t.
The massive US/UK military invasion in March 2003 succeeded in overthrowing Saddam Hussein and finishing off what remained of the civilian infrastructure. The subsequent failure to maintain security and restore order and services quickly soured the ‘liberation’ aspect and the US command had to admit its failure and ‘continue’ its involvement in a ‘continuing’ guerilla war. An already badly battered Iraqi economy was turned into a looting ground for Bush administration crony corporations.
President George W. Bush ‘warned’ Americans, on Wednesday that the war in Iraq would require “difficult choices and additional sacrifices” in the coming year, but he firmly rejected the notion that the war could not be won and vowed that the United States would not be “run out of the Middle East” by extremists and radicals. Oh not again... but wait! It doesn’t look like a warning, they are just used to it now and if not get used to it because the coming days will be more warnings and more killings in Iraq.
Why did I say that?
Just because, after a month in which he has been under pressure to change course in Iraq - from Democrats who want a gradual withdrawal of troops and from the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, whose report implied that he should reframe his goals away from democracy toward mere stability - the president showed no indication that he was inclined to change goals or pull out of Iraq.
The Great President of the Great America is only inclined to make the story “successful” without considering the fact that part of the Iraq is now a “ghost town” of rubble and unemployment, that is estimated at almost 70%, The Iraqi education system is in tatters; the medical system in ruins; basic social and urban services almost undeliverable; oil production barely up to pathetic prewar levels (if present-day figures are even real, which is in doubt); the position of women now disastrous; child malnutrition on the rise; and well over a million Iraqis have fled their homes in a country of only 26 million people.
Via: IHT
