Reply #153: Bush is planning his "Battle of the Bulge," the last battle for victory in Iraq

[IndianaGreen]

Hitler's last desperate act to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat was the winter offensive that came to be known as the Battle of the Bulge. Now we hear Bush and his coterie of neocon allies talk about one last push, one final confrontation, to break the back of the insurgency. For those of us old enough to have lived through Vietnam, this situation is similar to General Westmoreland's call for an additional 100,000 troops in the aftermath of the Tet Offensive. Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed on then-President Johnson. There are no rational people around Bush who seems to be in need of serious psychological intervention himself.

The war was wrong from its inception! It was a war of aggression that put our troops on the same moral plane as Saddam's armies when they invaded Kuwait, or Hitler's armies when they attacked Poland. Aggression and aggressor states should never be rewarded with victory or with the spoils of war, and America is no exception.

I am reminded of the prophetic words of Pope John Paul II who warned Bush and Blair that if they went into Iraq, they would do so without G-d. We have been damned ever since!