Martin Eden (Democratic Underground): Repudiating Bush

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From Democratic Underground
Dated Tueday September 23

Repudiation of Bush Foreign Policy is the Only Solution in Iraq
By Martin Eden

The Bush administration got us into this Iraqi mess, but we won't get out of it by staying the course with their mistaken policies. They were wrong about weapons of mass destruction and ties to 9/11, and they are wrong to continue sacrificing the lives of our troops in this quagmire. The president says we are fighting in Iraq so we won't have to fight in the streets of America. Wrong again. This is about the streets of Iraq, where Arab nationalists and Islamic jihadists are banding together to drive us out. We are on their ground, and we will lose our appetite for this costly guerilla war long before they do.
The Bush team failed to anticipate or adequately plan for the problems that experts warned would explode in postwar Iraq. They are compounding this inexcusable miscalculation by asking for help on terms unacceptable to nations that can provide it. We are indeed responsible for the mess we created, which is why we must do the right thing and abandon the objective of controlling Iraq and its oil resources. The Bush rationale for this war has shifted like the desert sands, but there has been one constant - the determination to privatize the Iraqi oil industry and keep it firmly in their corporate grasp.
The notion that all this blood and treasure is being spent to liberate and democratize the Iraqi people may play well with those who fly flags from their SUVs, but it is not so readily accepted by the beneficiaries of this largesse. Any government we install will lack legitimacy, and its longevity will depend on our capacity to sustain an occupying force. Bush is no doubt willing to do whatever it takes to hold on to his investment, but the dividends from Iraq will not fill the coffers of the American people.

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Well said, Mr. Eden.

[Martin Eden]

1. Thanks JR

IMHO, the biggest problem right now is not the guerilla fighters in Iraq or international terrorists -- it's Bush and his disastrous foreign policy.

As long as his cabal is at the helm, we will recruit two terrorists for every one we kill.

[indepat]

2. Or would twenty or one hundred be more

likely?

[Martin Eden]

3. I'm afraid

of finding out.