We’re So Successful We Just Can’t Stand It
September 4th, 2007
President George Bush used a surprise visit to Iraq yesterday to raise the prospect of withdrawing some US forces if “current successes” continue, but insisted that he would not be influenced by political considerations or opinion polls. …“General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker tell me if the kind of success we are now seeing continues, it will be possible to maintain the same level of security with fewer American forces,” Mr Bush said.
In other words, to help out Republicans in next year’s election, we’ll be withdrawing at least some troops… not because Iraq is a complete disaster, but because it is such a stunning success.
Of course, I never said these guys didn’t write fiction for a living….
At this point Bush is fooling no one except those that want to be fooled: the 30% that still back him.
It might just be enough candy to keep the Republicans in congress aligned with him for the remainder of the election season.
As far as the public goes, it will only reinforce the existing opinions, so I think. For Republicans, stay the course means utter and brutal disaster in 2008. I can’t believe that they would be that stupid. They think they can thread the needle: stay in Iraq long enough to blame it’s failure on the next President but draw down forces so as to create the impression of troop withdrawal for public consumption. There’s always the chance that that might work, just as there was always a chance that Iraqi’s would greet us a liberators.
At this point, I feel very bad for the soldiers stuck in Iraq. But I no longer think that their sufferance is in vein. If Iraq helps us get a veto proof majority in congress and a Democratic President, then we will have all the absolute power to reverse the last eight years, and perhaps, get universal health care. And that, would make the suffering our soldiers in Iraq very meaningful for hundreds of millions of people over the next few decades, improve the economy and deliver a middle class standard of living to ordinary Americans. We can go back to being a good country.
The only dark cloud over this scenario is Hillary and her connections with big corporations and the likes of Rupert Murdock and George H.W. (Carlyle Group) Bush (thought her Husband).
I will never vote for HIllary Clinton. I think dems shoot themselves in the foot with Hillary. I’m not voting republican either but there is just no way I vote for Hillary given her background and beliefs. Maybe its about time we get a third party president voted in.