The nation is waiting: President Bush owes Americans a real plan for securing Iraq
President George Bush isn’t yet ready with his new strategy for the war in Iraq. He’s still considering the options, studying multiple recommendations, trying to gauge the consequences of each possibility….Meanwhile, the nation knows when, where and how more U.S. soldiers will die in Iraq. It will be this week. The place? Probably in and around Baghdad, where insurgents are most deadly. The way? It probably will happen when a roadside bomb explodes as U.S. troops drive by in their Humvee.
We know that ever more young Americans- our sons and daughters- will be coming home in boxes. We know because we watch the news, we listen to the radio, and we read the newspapers that tell us how more and more Americans are dying horrible, senseless deaths in a pointless war managed by a complete moron. That the intellectually-challenged buffoon in the White House cares more for his own legacy than the lives he’s so carelessly sacrificing to save face.
After almost four years of war, we are no closer to being able to leave Iraq than we were on Day One…and yet everyday more Americans die for a war that no one can reasonably or rationally explain. If we’re to continue burying our children, shouldn’t we at least be able to point to something resembling progress? Shouldn’t we able to feel that their sacrifice was something that helped to make Iraq a better place? Instead, we have to deal with the reality that our children are being murdered by a policy that perpetuates an illegal and immoral war, the need for which was fueled by lies, deception, and propaganda.
NOW CAN WE IMPEACH THE LYING BASTARD?
[L]ittle has changed in Iraq. U.S. troops are still in harm’s way. Our forces are undersupplied, short on armor, short enough troops to win a purely military war — if that’s what the president decides he wants — and far short of enough Iraqi support to stop the insurgency. The general who is in day-to-day command of U.S. troops in Iraq says it will take more than just troops: It will take jobs and improved public services to win over the nation and quell the violence.
And it will take a new direction, a real plan for President Bush to convince Americans there is an end in sight to the war, to the deaths of U.S. soldiers, and to the pain those deaths cause a grieving nation.
After almost four years of war, the president owes Americans some answers. He owes it to our troops. And, as a nation, we owe a lot to those who have died or been wounded in the war.
BOTTOM LINE: It’s time for a new plan to end the deaths on both sides of the war.
When something is clearly and undeniably not working, the logical, rational response is to determine how to fix it. If that something is broken beyond repair, the logical, rational response is to replace it if possible or abandon it altogether and cut your losses. Iraq is broken, and it seems clear that there is nothing American involvement is going to be able to fix what damage has been done. The continued sacrifice of more of our sons and daughters is not going to bring Iraq closer to peace and prosperity.
In short, we may have broken Iraq, but fixing the country is simply not something that we’re going to be able to do. That will have be done by Iraqis themselves, if it’s even possible to repair what Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader’s illegal and immoral war has ripped asunder.
His spokesman says the president’s speech to the nation, which had been expected before the end of the year, will come sometime after the first of the year.
“We do not know when, so I can’t give you a date, I can’t give you a time, I can’t give you a place, I can’t give you a way in which it will happen,” the president’s spokesman said last week.
And yet we do know when and how more of our sons and daughters will be murdered. It will be while Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader fiddles. It will be while he’s busy trying to figure out how to save face and protect his legacy. And it will be for nothing…absolutely, undeniably nothing.
