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Mugsy's Rap Sheet:ISG: “Ask Iran and Syria to Help Us with Iraq.” Why Would They? Also, Bailing Junior’s Ass Out Again.(...)
I heard someone state the obvious yesterday… so obvious I hadn’t considered it…
What is more in Iran’s interest:Helping the U.S. create a stable Democratic ally next door that might side with America against them?OR…A United States bogged down in Iraq, wasting precious resources trying to bring it under control....“Why on Earth would Iran and Syria want to *help* us do something so clearly not in their best interests?” Which got me thinking:
“What would make it within their interest?” And I came up with this enticing option:
Threaten to abandon Iraq and leave it a mess. Threaten to pull out and leave a nasty civil war on their doorstep, with the potential of spilling out over its borders and destabilize their own countries… the exact reasoning we are using for why they should help us. But all they hear now is “we won’t leave until Iraq is fixed”, which gives them NO incentive to help us. But if we use this mess as LEVERAGE, threatening to leave this hot steaming pile in their backyard for THEM to clean up… thus turning the tables 180′ so that WE are the ones freed up while THEY waste precious resources to bring Iraq under control, THEN maybe they might suddenly feel the need to help us.
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Speaking of his father, former President George H.W. Bush
broke down in tears Tuesday while giving a speech before the Florida State Legislature in honor of his son Jeb, Governor of Florida. Several people has suggested that the former President sobbed, not so much for what his son Jeb had overcome, but in recognition of just how badly his son George W had tarnished the family name, destroyed their reputation, and likely annihilated any future political aspirations “the good son” Jeb might of had.
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Postscript: I feel a sense of
poetic justice in the fact that two of Poppy’s friends, Sandra Day O’Connor and James A Baker III… two people INSTRUMENTAL in stopping the 2000 Florida recount and getting George W appointed President… had to be brought in as part of the Iraq Study Group to bail juniors ass out now. (...)
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