Iraq War is Bush Legacy

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by Martin Frost

This is George Bush’s war and let’s be clear who is responsible for the ultimate outcome. His failed policy led to the current intolerable situation and nothing that he has proposed has worked. If the “surge” helps to somewhat stabilize Iraq, I’m willing to let Bush claim some credit, but he cannot undo the damage he has done to American foreign policy around the world or to the overall strength and readiness of our military.

We should never forget the mistakes that this administration has made during the past three and a half years. These include failure to listen to the president’s own generals, failure to provide enough troops to stabilize the country early on, failure to provide adequate equipment such as armored humvees and body armor, failure to have a plan to combat the insurgency and failure to understand that civil war was highly likely once the Iraqi army was disbanded.

Congressional Democrats will overwhelming support the non-binding resolution (the closest thing we have under our system to a “no-confidence” vote) expressing opposition to the surge strategy and stating that it is in America’s national interest to end our involvement in Iraq in an orderly way. It should get a number of Republican votes.

Hopefully there will be some semblance of a democracy in Iraq when this is all over, but it’s now up to the Iraqi people to determine whether or not democracy can succeed in their country. It should not be up to us to keep troops there indefinitely even if that means that democracy may fail.


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1. Can't believe this was on Fox!