The Manipulation of the American Mind Only Impeachment Can Prevent More War

[seemslikeadream]

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts01222007.html

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

Everyone knows that Bush's Iraq "surge" will not work. Even the authors of the plan, neoconservatives Frederick Kagan and Jack Keane, have emphasized that the plan cannot work with any less than an addition of 50,000 US troops committed to another three years of combat. Bush is only adding 40% of that number of troops, and Defense Secretary Gates speaks of the operation being over by summer's end.

On January 18 a panel of retired generals testifying on Capitol Hill slammed Bush's surge plan as "a fool's errand." Even the easily bamboozled American public knows the plan will not work. Newsweek's latest poll released January 20 shows that only 23% of the public support sending more troops to Iraq and that twice as many Americans trust the Democrats in Congress than trust Bush.

A majority of Americans (54%) believe Bush to be neither honest nor ethical, and 57% believe that Bush lacks "strong leadership qualities."

Nevertheless, Bush defended his surge plan, telling a group of TV stations last week, "I believe it will work."

Bush is correct that it will work--indeed, the surge is working. We have to be clear about how the plan works. It does not mean that 21,500 more US troops will bring order and stability to Iraq. The surge is working, because it is deflecting attention from the Bush Regime's real game plan.

[Parisle]

1. Bravo,....... very true,.....deflecting attention,.... right,......

---But it has nevertheless been thusfar beyond the ability of a single democrat to enunciate exactly what the Bush Regime's "real game plan" has been. No one wants to state it in terms of its actual and true nature. America may not be ready to accept and deal with what has actually occurred in the last six years.

[happydreams]

4. that's what gets me. Why don't they just say it?? K&R

[Hubert Flottz]

2. K&R...

I believe this man is 100% correct. We are in one hell of a fix!

Edit...Impeachment is off the table? Congress are off their freakin' rockers.

[tom_paine]

3. K & R

[Pharaoh]

5. impeach tne moron

or we're all screwed...............

[H2O Man]

6. I have a dream ....