Iraq war has been a hard sell for the skilled and manipulative Bush team. Now after four years of Iraq war, there has been more outrage in the United States and even Mr. Bush admitted that Americans are weary of the Iraq war and defended his decision to send more troops to Iraq before a number of soldiers about to deploy there.
I’m still a bit confused by this entire process he is trying to set up with his subdued tone. Terri Schiavo rightly said -
The patient is dead, so let’s call in the best doctors so they can get together and come to a consensus as to how to keep the dead guy alive.
This is what Bush is trying to do- Trying to keep the dead person alive.
Bush says - ‘It’s a tough war’ may be in away he is accepting that ‘It’s a lost war’ where a victory is not possible and not feasible and where he is left with only one last option i.e. to find some way to mitigate the defeat.
Bush’s recent comments reflected recognition of the unpopularity of the war but he wants to bring stability to Baghdad and avoid a spread of the conflict into the region that could endanger U.S. ally Israel.
This subdued tone of Mr. Bush is trying to defend his decision to add about 30,000 extra troops to Iraq in which more than 3,200 U.S. troops have already been killed, to persuade the Democratic-led U.S. Congress to approve about $100 billion to fund wars in Iraq and Afghanistan without attaching a withdrawal timetable.
However, he don’t seem to realize that such a bump in the number of troops won’t help much unless Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki balance the boost in security with political moves that would lessen the influence of the anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. These sacrifices by US troops won’t be helpful in the security and reconstruction of Iraq coupled with the incompetence of the Iraqi leaders.
