The Iraq raid had indeed proved a cake walk for the American armed forces forty-three months ago and the rats that were on Presidents George Bush’s ship to the Persian Gulf are beginning to abandon it.
Kenneth Adelman, the former Reagan administration official is no exception. Defense Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld has been shown the door and ‘the president is ultimately responsible’ for the mess that Iraq has turned out to be.
The midterm election has proved a catalyst for Bush baiters and long time friends abandoning the president in his finale to the powerful position he holds, is typical of any democracy where policies have got botched up.
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“There are a lot of lives that are lost,” Adelman said in an interview last week. “A country’s at stake. A region’s at stake. This is a gigantic situation. . . . This didn’t have to be managed this bad. It’s just awful.”
——- is conceding the blunder the American made in toppling Saddam Hussain and leaving Iran with its Islamic Revolution ideals as the governing ideology for the middle east.
The solider in Colin L Powell had made him realize that a regime change in Iraq could prove a Vietnam to manage after the near objective was achieved, especially in the face of strong opposition from some of the European allies.
Roof top shouting about democracy being the best method to governance has blown into the face of President Bush. The simmering balance between the Shias, Sunnis and Kurds in Iraq has been broken and Saddam Hussain may be down under but he is not out yet.
In life or in death, he is going to prove hard to deal with.
