Joe Galloway: Bush determined to prolong lost war

[babylonsister]

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/galloway/17173005.htm


Bush determined to prolong lost war
By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY
McClatchy Newspapers

The time for bumper-sticker bombast, sound-bite strategizing and gotcha politics as practiced by the politicians who infest the nation's capital needs to end right now, at least where it intersects with the disaster that is the Iraq War.

There's no high ground left to capture by either a stubborn president who won't see or hear the truth about where his path to "victory" in a lost war really leads, or the new Democratic majority in Congress, which is too timid and fearful of doing what they were elected to do - bring an end to the war as swiftly as possible.

While the politicians - a pox on all of them - wrangled and dithered and bloviated American troops were dying at record numbers on the bomb-blasted roads and streets of Iraq. The month of April saw 104 American soldiers and Marines travel home in flag-draped coffins, out of sight of the cameras and the American people in whose name they died. It was the sixth highest monthly death toll of the war.

This past week was a circus of the ridiculous as President Bush went on television every day threatening to veto a bill providing the billions needed to continue to prosecute his war - only the second veto The Decider has exercised in his six years in power - on grounds that the Democrats were trying to substitute the judgments of politicians for that of the military commanders on the ground.

Bush's daily diatribe overlooked the fact that the politicians of his administration had shoved their own flawed judgments down the throats of our military commanders every day since planning of the invasion began early in 2002.

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[Gregorian]

1. Defund it.

Mission Accomplished was all about getting just what they were after.

The best we can do is clean up their mess. So by defunding this war, AND the profiteering, they no longer have any interest in the god damned place.

If we don't end this war and see to it that justice is served for those who started it, we're no better than cave men.

[IndianaGreen]

2. Bush only likes dead GIs. He doesn't care how many die to save his face!

Defund the war at once!

[happydreams]

6. The political moment has come and gone. The decision to

fund the war with conditions was the dems big mistake. They will never go back and recover this lost ground. What they should have done was cut the funding and tell Bush that the blood will be on his hands if he doesn't bring the troops home.

Then STFU and wait for his countermove.

Instead the dems half-stepped and have been on the defensive ever since. IMHO this was the end of any hope of getting out of Iraq.

I hope I'm wrong.

:scared:

[Erika]

3. Bring our troops home

and then let's impeach Bush. They lost their lives for corporate profits.

Hopefully, the Iraqis will try him as a war criminal.

[unblock]

4. the war is still working ... for bush's backers

they wanted to disrupt a competitor's oil supply and they got it.

record profits. why would exxonmobilchevronphillips want peace and free-flowing oil from iraq when they can have chaos and limited supply instead?

[enough]

5. k&r