Will Bush be a casualty of war?

[leftchick]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/03/18/iraq/

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March 18, 2004 | When a car bomb ripped through the Mount Lebanon Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday morning, you might have expected the Secret Service to shuffle Dick Cheney off to a secure undisclosed location somewhere -- not because there was any immediate threat to the vice president, but because Wednesday seemed like the kind of day when the architects of the war on Iraq might prefer to be outside of the public view.

Not so. Minutes after the attack, which killed seven people and marked a bloody beginning to the one-year anniversary of the Iraq war, Cheney took to the stage for a previously scheduled speech at the Ronald Reagan Library in California. On one half of CNN's split screen, rescuers pulled bodies from the rubble in Baghdad; on the other half, Cheney blasted away at Sen. John Kerry's record on Iraq.

Chutzpah? Maybe, but there's more. On Thursday, George W. Bush himself traveled to Fort Campbell, Ky., to trumpet his administration's success in the war on terror on the eve of the anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. On Saturday, Bush will hold his first full-fledged political rally of the election year. The location: Florida.

From the blue state perspective of the MoveOn and Meetup world, it all seems exactly upside down. From that vantage, the war on Iraq has been an unmitigated disaster and international embarrassment -- 565 U.S. soldiers have died in a war whose primary proffered justification appears to have been false -- and it's a reason to vote against George Bush, not for him. But that's clearly not how they see things at Bush-Cheney headquarters. White House political strategist Karl Rove plans to run his client as a steadfast leader in dangerous times, and events like Wednesday's bombing in Baghdad and Thursday's attack in Basra may, paradoxically, help set the stage for such a campaign. New violence in Iraq pushes the war back to the top of the TV news, and it blows talk of a stagnating U.S. economy right off the air.

[BigBigBear]

1. It's spin

Not entirely intuitive spin, but spin nonetheless.

We know that Rove is using life and death, billions of dollars and nothing short of rewriting 80 years of American foreign policy as a political crib sheet, but they care about exactly one thing.

Winning.

It is the triumph of process over content, the exertion of all resources to maintain access to governing, not necessarily the wisdom of actions that flow from governing.

[rfkrocks]

4. wow-well put

the whole overturning foreign policy line-that happened and not media outlet talked about that huge change-Bushco started a ball rolling except now its heading our way-but we must blame the people for following this utter nonesense

[UpInArms]

2. the article dated today

and with today's and yesterday's news is already outdated -

565 U.S. soldiers have died in a war

The number is currently 571 - lives lost - more than that ruined - the devastation of the mal-administration has a pace that takes ones breath - literally and figuratively.

:cry:

[leftchick]

3. It is sickening UIA...

This whole catch OBL's right hand man crap on tv 24/7 is a ruse to cover for all of the dead in Iraq in the last 24hours.

:cry:

[Demeter]

5. Bush Can Run...But he can't win....and he can't hide!

The wheel of fortune has turned, the result of too much spinning. Bye-bye Bush--have fun in the Hague!