Iraq -- Here's the real deal

[CatWoman]

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Bush is right that progress is occurring in some places, including this city north of Baghdad. But even here progress is fitful, and dependent on Iraqi confidence that the Americans will not bail out anytime soon. The president's implication that the latest well-coordinated attacks are a last gasp of a desperate opposition seems so much a product of wishful thinking that it can only undermine that confidence, even as it continues to mislead Americans about the difficulty of defeating a ruthless insurgency.



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Here's the reality: Insurgents are waging a strategic and malevolently clever campaign that is achieving, in its terms, considerable success. The kind of progress that Bush seeks cannot be accomplished under current conditions of danger and uncertainty. What Iraqis need as they emerge from decades of stifling repression is a richness of contact with the world and a faith that change -- true, structural change -- is possible. Both of those -- the contact and the faith -- are undermined, deliberately and successfully, by terrorism aimed at any vulnerable point of intersection between cooperating Iraqis and well-wishing foreigners.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32418-2003Oct28.html

[radwriter0555]

1. bush can't achieve any measure of success, prosperity and progress in his

own country; how dare he have the hubris to think he can achieve it in iraq under such intense, horrific and oppositional conditions?

The gall, the gall.

[billbuckhead]

2. Ditto and double ditto

We need to bring democracy to America first.

[Tatiana]

3. The Iraqi people didn't like or trust Saddam.

The Iraqi people don't like or trust Bush either. That's the problem. They know the dimwit is only using them and gives 2 $**ts about their well-being. Under different leadership, there is some hope that things will change.

They won't stop the suicide bombings or the attacks until we are out of their country. Period. Unfortunately, the Dimwit doesn't operate from that understanding.

[The Magistrate]

4. It Is Indeed, Ma'am, A Very Well Conducted Campaign

Ruthless to a fault, in some instance, but displaying a great political sophistication.

The recent comments from the administration are enough to make me weep, in the courteous presumption those who utter them really do believe them.

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"