The Real Disaster Is BUSH - (NYT Editorial)

[kpete]

Editorial
The Real Disaster
Published: January 11, 2007

President Bush told Americans last night that failure in Iraq would be a disaster. The disaster is Mr. Bush’s war, and he has already failed. Last night was his chance to stop offering more fog and be honest with the nation, and he did not take it.

Americans needed to hear a clear plan to extricate United States troops from the disaster that Mr. Bush created. What they got was more gauzy talk of victory in the war on terrorism and of creating a “young democracy” in Iraq. In other words, a way for this president to run out the clock and leave his mess for the next one.

Mr. Bush did acknowledge that some of his previous tactics had failed. But even then, the president sounded as if he were an accidental tourist in Iraq. He described the failure of last year’s effort to pacify Baghdad as if the White House and the Pentagon bore no responsibility.

In any case, Mr. Bush’s excuses were tragically inadequate. The nation needs an eyes-wide-open recognition that the only goal left is to get the U.S. military out of this civil war in a way that could minimize the slaughter of Iraqis and reduce the chances that the chaos Mr. Bush unleashed will engulf Iraq’s neighbors.

What it certainly did not need were more of Mr. Bush’s open-ended threats to Iran and Syria.

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more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/opinion/11thu1.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

[ProSense]

1. NYT calls Bush a disaster, but they're still pushing stay as long as it takes.

NYT says stay as long as it takes.

[Canuckistanian]

2. Wow, that was blunt

But that editorial board deserves a medal.
:thumbsup:

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Too bad the NYT's played such a big roll selling this war

Thanks you bastards.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

4. The fear and power card worked on them like it did most corporate media after 9/11

I welcome their honest input now.

It doesn't wipe out Judy Miller's lying, but it helps.

[ginnyinWI]

5. this one's a keeper

I'm printing it out and intend to show people in my family, because it encapsulates the whole debacle pretty well.

[maxsolomon]

8. don't show it to my moms

its the NYT - its tainted!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

10. Send it to her with "Washington Times" in place of NYT.

Kidding. Sorta.

[maxsolomon]

11. i get it

but she wouldn't - doesn't know about the VRWC, but trusts Faux that the MSM is "liberal".

[Felix Mala]

6. If the Disaster-in-Chief says "tactics" have failed and Iraq isn't "working..."

does that mean his minions can no long complain that the Media is to blame? Or the liberals? Or the Democrats? Or France? Does this mean the blame now firmly rests with The Decider?

[willing dwarf]

14. Disaster in Chief

Love that moniker (horrible though it's implication be!). I think that's the one I'll use for * from now on.

Great article. Where were they in '03?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

7. K&R

[ZENmud]

9. NY Times = all the misprints

Shouldn't that sentence read " The New York Times described the President's description of the failure of last year’s effort to pacify Baghdad as if the White House, its Press Office, the national media such as this paper and its 'ace' reporter Judith Miller, and the Pentagon bore no responsibility."

NY Times: always 'there' -- when you want them somewhere else!

ZENmud

[vpurto]

12. The Real Disaster

The 'Real Disaster' is not disaster in Iraq no matter how messy will be outcome in the Bush’s 2003 war of aggression with Iraq. The bigger disaster is, as Times Editorial noted, that “the American people long ago lost faith in the Iraqi government — and in him as well.” One can add to list who lost faith in his Administration, virtually all people around the globe and all essential governments. Yet, the biggest disaster of them all, the mother of all disasters, is still under radar of American people and our representatives, including those who were helped into office on November 7, 2006.

This utmost disaster is lost of faith and trust in American system of government beyond perimeters of our borders. Watching loose cannon, a.k.a. George W. Bush, acting like absolute monarch with his finger on nuclear button and his eyes toward the Second Coming. He openly does not seek consent of governed; he is not subject to kind of medical examination, to which King George III was subjected. And yet, the ruling party insists that they have to put the fate of the whole world into next 2008 election!
With such poor understanding of what is in store for all of us, if our own government loose faith in American system, only immediate and speedy impeachment of Bush andChaneyy may prevent world to unite against us. The era of Empires is over. Only open admission of this fact and 180-degree turn from confrontation to cooperation may save our hides.

If lessons of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s policies would ever have any values for us, it would be right now.

[shaniqua6392]

13. Excellent post!

Thank you and welcome to DU!