"The president can give all the speeches he wants, but nothing will change the fact that his Iraq policy is wrong," said Reid, D-Nevada. "Two weeks ago, he told the American people that Iraqis would control their country by the end of the year. But last week, he told us our troops would be there until at least 2009."

In other words, gwb's created a mess and someone will have to clean up after him, just as he has done his entire life.  Or, is he gradually stetching the time out, until the bases can be accepted as permanent?

"First, they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." Mahatma Gandhi

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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After all, the PNAC crowd wrote him a letter in '98:

The only acceptable strategy is one that eliminates the possibility that Iraq will be able to use or threaten to use weapons of mass destruction. In the near term, this means a willingness to undertake military action as diplomacy is clearly failing. In the long term, it means removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power. That now needs to become the aim of American foreign policy.

We urge you to articulate this aim, and to turn your Administration's attention to implementing a strategy for removing Saddam's regime from power. This will require a full complement of diplomatic, political and military efforts.

Bill didn't take them up on it. So, the fact that 25 or so people a day are being killed in Iraq, the fact that electricity availability is lower than it was three years ago, the fact that Sunnis are cutting off Shi'a heads and Shiite death squads are operating out of government bureaus are all Bill Clinton's fault.

"We're trying to give the illusion of due diligence." --Bennett Holiday to Jimmy Pope in Syriana

riverbend

"The war in Iraq is a mistake. No its worse than a mistake. Lets quit pussy-footing around and call it like it is. The war in Iraq is a grand profiteering scheme gone awry and Americans need to take off their blinders and face the truth."

She ends this great piece with this:

"For the first time in history, the US went to war because of intelligence reports claiming that a country posed a grave threat to our nation. We should accept nothing less than a full-scale, wide-open Congressional investigation into the issue of pre-war intelligence on the threat from Iraq.

It is in the compelling national interest to examine what we were told about the threat from Iraq to determine once and for all whether the intelligence was faulty or distorted.

The purpose of such an investigation is not to engage in "revisionist history." It is to get at the truth. The American people have valid questions that deserve to be answered."

Call your reps now and demand a full nonstop investigation until these fascists are Frogmarched out of the White House.

 

Frodo failed...Bush has got the ring.