"Bush's Fantasy of "Progress" in Iraq: What is he thinking?"

[Bluebear]

By Robert Scheer

On a day when Shiite vigilantes conducted hangings in Sadr City in reprisal for the killing of scores of their co-religionists in a market bombing, President Bush continued to insist that progress in Iraq justified staying the course.

“By their response over the past two weeks, Iraqis have shown the world that they want a future of freedom and peace,” he said Monday. ‘We’re helping Iraqis build a strong democracy so that old resentments will be eased and the insurgency marginalized.”

Of course, the drip-drip of American troop deaths continues, as Lance Cpl. Bunny Long, 22, of Modesto, Calif., will be coming home in a flag-draped casket after being killed Friday by a suicide, vehicle-borne, IED.

If such constant mayhem is taken as a sign of progress, three years after the U.S. invasion, then Bush surely will be thrilled by what the future holds. The British, on the other hand, have seen the handwriting on the wall and once again have begun to flee an imperial disappointment in Mesopotamia, announcing they are reducing their forces by 10 percent. Clearly, London has grasped what Bush cannot: The three-year occupation by Western armies is an incitement to guerrilla violence, not an impediment....

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060314_robert_scheer_iraq/

[liberal N proud]

1. Robert Scheer implies that bu$h thinks?

:rofl:

What was Robert Scheer thinking?

[teryang]

2. General Pace, "let's make a decision we can be proud of."

Let's keep killing people in an illegal war. Americans have killed more civilians than any other faction in Iraq.

[jbnow]

3. He is thinking if he frames it right,

if he says the words, we'' go back to the trance so many were in after 9/11. Trusting him, supporting him, questioning nothing.

[acmavm]

4. This is the sort of article that should be in the NYT or any

reputable mainstream media outlet. But it won't be. Too much reality. Too much truth. Too apt a description of bush** and his total disconnect from the real world.