Disconnected and Dead Wrong

The Bush league sounds like a junta from another planet when it tries to outline and defend its policies to Americans.

Bush supporter Senator John Warner got his knickers in a twist because, in spite of extravagant promises and billions of dollars, there appears to be no Iraqi Security Forces in Iraq.
Why it took him nearly four years to get up a head of steam is something of a mystery.
During all that time he had the responsibility to act if things weren't going according to plan. Instead he accepted Donald Rumsfeld’s irrational exuberance and bad statistics while he continued to support the building of a phantom army.
Why he never questioned the underlying logic is disturbing.


As we all know, Cheney was wrong about the flowers and cheering crowds when the US stormed into Iraq. As the provisional government and US Generals committed blunder after blunder, resentment hardened into hatred. For some time now, 80-90% of the Iraqis have wanted us gone and have shown us in varying ways that they are serious.

What is in the Senate water supply that makes Warner and other senators think that Iraqis might be interested in protecting a US puppet government whose members are seen as enemy collaborators and who are giving away control of their resources, infrastructure and economy to a foreign power.
Why does Warner refuse to understand that asking Iraqis to ‘stand up so we can stand down’ is asking the Iraqis to murder or incarcerate enough of their fellow countrymen so that US and British business interests won’t be annoyed while they are stuffing their pockets.
Why haven’t he and his colleagues been able to figure out that Iraqis might not want to stabilize their country as long as the US is intent on completing 14 permanent military bases and making war on their neighbors.

The new Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, frustrated by the lack of Senate support for Bush’s bloody troop escalation, impugned its member’s patriotism by slinging one of the right wing’s favorite McCarthyisms. Gates told them that their refusal to support a plan that has been ballyhooed by US military experts was “helping the enemy”.

Gates seems to be missing some valuable pieces of information.
The Iraqis are the only people living in Iraq and it’s clearly understood it’s their country.
If there is anyone in Iraq that doesn’t belong there, it’s US and British military forces
Every member of the Bush administration claims that we went into Iraq to help the Iraqi people. Congress funded assistance for the Iraqi people.
Logic demands that the Iraqis cannot be the enemy.
Sending 20000 plus US soldiers into an urban meat grinder on a fool's errand is what "helping the enemy" looks like.

The Lame Duck President reminded us again that was he was “the decision-maker”. You could hear the nation collectively suck in its breath when a man who has demonstrated so frequently and thoroughly that his thinking processes are impaired, tries to claim that title and exercise its privileges. .
The fact of the matter is that he is not the decider. The US Constitution is a valid document even though Alberto Gonzales didn’t write it.
Three co-equal branches of government means exactly what it says. If he remains in office long enough, he'll get to see how it all works.

Liz Cheney, Dick and Lynn Cheney’s little draft deferment who is a peculiar mix of nepotism, cronyism and a no bid contract , left her heavy duties at the State Department to take time to write an editorial in the once proud Washington Post. She echoed her father’s talking points in caps. QUITTING IRAQ HELPS THE TERRORISTS.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree when it comes to making grandiose statements that have no basis in fact and letting her fellow countrymen do the dying while she holds their coats.

The fact is that intercepted messages from Al Qaida leaders (who were no where near Iraq before her father and his protégé blundered in) fear a US withdrawal. The Iraqis historically have little tolerance for foreign fighters. Al Qaida is afraid of being thrown out of Iraq if the US troops leave too quickly. They want more time to court the Iraqis. They want US troops bogged down in Iraq and sucking the US economy dry.

To listen to these people one would think that this administration and its supporters had just arrived from Mars and were asked to run the government on short notice. It's closer to the truth than you might think. The goals and interests of the Bush administration and their supporters are as distant from ours as that of an alien life form.

They are a private cabal who have secret goals and govern strictly for their own interests. They are illegitimately using public monies and public institutions like the military to carry out their private agenda. The rewards are shared out among themselves while we pay the bills and tighten our belts. They are not leaders they are parasites. Following them is not a reasonable option.

Carol DW