Bush Flees Iraq Mess On The Campaign Express

[G_j]

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0402/perlstein.php

George Bush is selling out Iraq. Gone are his hard-liners' dreams of setting up a peaceful, prosperous, and democratic republic, a light unto the Middle Eastern nations. The decision makers in the administration now realize these goals are unreachable. So they've set a new goal: to end the occupation by July 1, whether that occupation has accomplished anything valuable and lasting or not. Just declare victory and go home. The tyranny of Saddam Hussein will be over. But a new tyranny will likely take its place: the tyranny of civil war, as rival factions rush into the void. Such is the mess this president seems willing to leave behind in order to save his campaign.

"The Bush game plan is to have pictures of some U.S. troops leaving and the Iraqis opening their own government, the U.S. having presided over the birth of this new embryonic democracy," observes former Clinton White House adviser Sidney Blumenthal. The problem is, there will be no Iraqi democracy. There might not even be a viable Iraqi government. Instead, Baghdad will become Beirut: Iraq's three major religious and ethnic groups, the Sunnis, the Shiites, and the Kurds, will consolidate their respective positions in the center, south, and north of the country, recruit their militias, and get down to fighting for control of the power vacuum that is the post-war "peace."

Once again, as so often in these last few months, an analogy is Vietnam. And, as so often in the last three years, the analogous president is Nixon.

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In 1975, President Gerald Ford, setting out to bind up the wounds of a nation divided by Vietnam, read these words drafted by a speechwriter for an address to Congress:

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[StClone]

1. Ann Rhichards predicts exactly that

Last night on Larry King (paraphrase) "Bush is going to leave Iraq mid-year to reduce chances it will hurt him in November."

[BackDoorMan]

2. "Victory in Iraq" Bush brings the troops home...Bush wins election

in a landslide victory. Bush brought democracy to Iraq, it was worth a few soldiers lives, no threat from Hussein ever again.
The republican owned corporate media will run with it for days, (boost their ratings) the soldiers will all say how happy they are to be home and they'll find the ones to say, it was tough but it was all worth it.

Bush is all smiles, his approval ratings in the polls, SOAR...everyone who doubted the little king is again laughed at and scorned as unpatriotic, non-american...

The media will then forget the huge mess we caused and left behind in Iraq. Get it out of the people's minds right now, focus onto something else quickly, there's are a million things to change the headlines to make Bush look great...now it's time to win the election for our wonderful Bush...he stopped them damn terrorist...three cheers for Bush, a real compassionate, and tough American!

He'll balance the budget, fix everything else too...Yes, another four years.

And the US weapons makers, Carlyle Group, Halliburton, Becthal will have made billions of (our tax dollars) dollars off the invasion, (so what if there's no money left for SS, education, universal medical, etc. it was all worth it because now we are safer.)

Bush get his ratings push ands American OIL companies now control the OIL...

Now it's time my friends to move on to something else and to make Bush a hero...Yes, Yes!

Four more year, four more years, FOUR MORE YEARS!!!

[G_j]

3. we'll be hearing as much about Iraq

as we are now about Afghanistan.

[G_j]

4. kick

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