"Mr. Bush did announce his plan for 20,000 more troops, and the White House trumpeted a $1 billion contribution to reconstruction efforts. Congress will debate these as if they are the real issues. But they are not. Talk of a “surge” ignores the other 140,000 American troops trapped by a failed strategy."
"We have argued that the United States has a moral obligation to stay in Iraq as long as there is a chance to mitigate the damage that a quick withdrawal might cause. We have called for an effort to secure Baghdad, but as part of the sort of comprehensive political solution utterly lacking in Mr. Bush’s speech. This war has reached the point that merely prolonging it could make a bad ending even worse. Without a real plan to bring it to a close, there is no point in talking about jobs programs and military offensives. There is nothing ahead but even greater disaster in Iraq."
Editorial
The Real Disaster
Published: January 11, 2007
The New York Times
***
The war in Iraq will determine the kind of world your children and grandchildren will live in.
At this moment that world is going to be a dark and bleak one unless we complete the mission and get the job done in Iraq.
Our mission in Iraq will not be complete until the mission is completed.
The job will not be finished until Victory is achieved.
We will not cut and run.
We will not walk and hum.
We did not remove a dangerous dictator and murder his sons just so that we could leave Iraq without achieving victory.
We came, we saw, we bombed…and we will conquer the radicals and extremists.
Many battles have been won; many civilians have been killed; but our mission still isn't complete.
Halliburton and Bechtel must also complete their mission.
We cannot allow extremists and radicals to have our...I mean Iraq’s oil.
The stability of the Middle East depends on defeating the enemies of peace in Iraq.
Iraq is now the center of the Global War on Terrorism.
Iraq is the new breeding ground for the killers who want to kill you, me and our children.
But we are cornering and corralling the radicals and extremists in Baghdad
It is there that we will defeat the enemies of peace and bring them to justice.
There can be no retreat.
There will be no retreat.
We shall prevail.
I created this mess.
Let me destroy what I have created.
I will work on a new way forward…
And it’s my way or the highway!
We still have God on our side!
I know.
I talked with Him the other night.
Barney was there.
***
"You see, we do not have a democracy, with the Bush administration in power. We have an elective dictatorship."
"Bush is the Napoleon of our age, trampling on whole peoples, a Jacobin Emperor mouthing the slogans of liberty and popular sovereignty while crushing and looting those he "liberated." And Kagan and Kristol (playing Talleyrand 1798) and Emperor Bush are readying a further slaughter of our US troops, 24,000 of whom have been killed or wounded, and of innocent Iraqis, 600,000 of whom have been killed by criminal and political violence since spring of 2003."
"The problem is that Iraq is a 500,000 troop problem. Another 40,000 are just going to anger locals."
From Informed Comment
www.juancole.com
December 15, 2006
IT'S THE OIL STUPID!
"We have argued that the United States has a moral obligation to stay in Iraq as long as there is a chance to mitigate the damage that a quick withdrawal might cause. We have called for an effort to secure Baghdad, but as part of the sort of comprehensive political solution utterly lacking in Mr. Bush’s speech. This war has reached the point that merely prolonging it could make a bad ending even worse. Without a real plan to bring it to a close, there is no point in talking about jobs programs and military offensives. There is nothing ahead but even greater disaster in Iraq."
Editorial
The Real Disaster
Published: January 11, 2007
The New York Times
***
The war in Iraq will determine the kind of world your children and grandchildren will live in.
At this moment that world is going to be a dark and bleak one unless we complete the mission and get the job done in Iraq.
Our mission in Iraq will not be complete until the mission is completed.
The job will not be finished until Victory is achieved.
We will not cut and run.
We will not walk and hum.
We did not remove a dangerous dictator and murder his sons just so that we could leave Iraq without achieving victory.
We came, we saw, we bombed…and we will conquer the radicals and extremists.
Many battles have been won; many civilians have been killed; but our mission still isn't complete.
Halliburton and Bechtel must also complete their mission.
We cannot allow extremists and radicals to have our...I mean Iraq’s oil.
The stability of the Middle East depends on defeating the enemies of peace in Iraq.
Iraq is now the center of the Global War on Terrorism.
Iraq is the new breeding ground for the killers who want to kill you, me and our children.
But we are cornering and corralling the radicals and extremists in Baghdad
It is there that we will defeat the enemies of peace and bring them to justice.
There can be no retreat.
There will be no retreat.
We shall prevail.
I created this mess.
Let me destroy what I have created.
I will work on a new way forward…
And it’s my way or the highway!
We still have God on our side!
I know.
I talked with Him the other night.
Barney was there.
***
"You see, we do not have a democracy, with the Bush administration in power. We have an elective dictatorship."
"Bush is the Napoleon of our age, trampling on whole peoples, a Jacobin Emperor mouthing the slogans of liberty and popular sovereignty while crushing and looting those he "liberated." And Kagan and Kristol (playing Talleyrand 1798) and Emperor Bush are readying a further slaughter of our US troops, 24,000 of whom have been killed or wounded, and of innocent Iraqis, 600,000 of whom have been killed by criminal and political violence since spring of 2003."
"The problem is that Iraq is a 500,000 troop problem. Another 40,000 are just going to anger locals."
From Informed Comment
www.juancole.com
December 15, 2006
IT'S THE OIL STUPID!
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