Saturday, August 28, 2004
The Miscalculations Continue...
Why stop now? Why stop when you're on a roll?
I got it wrong admits Bush
George W. Bush yesterday said he miscalculated post-war conditions in Iraq and that the long insurgency was the product of a "swift victory."
In his first acknowledgement on the issue, the US President told The New York Times in an interview that the miscalculation was an unintended byproduct of a "swift victory."
Oh. Gee.
He added that Saddam Hussein's forces quickly went into hiding in Iraqi cities where they mounted a rebellion far faster than the Americans had anticipated.
And why is THAT, perchance? Why DIDN'T you anticipate it?
Sorry, George, your incompetence is showing.
Seemingly, everyone on the globe (aside from you, George) knew invading an unarmed or underarmed Iraq was smashing an ant with an anvil, and would last a very short time, making Grenada look like a quagmire.
Scores of U.S. Generals and Admirals, Pentagon analysts, Intelligence community analysts, State Department analysts, Foreign dignitaries, American media pundits and millions of normal American citizens across the country, all attempted to explain to your Administration the underlying danger in your invasion plans. That we were fine while we were rolling through the place, but were woefully unprepared and ill-suited for being in the place.
Even Ol' 41, the earthly father you hate so profoundly, chimed in and agreed with the conventional wisdom.
Everyone noted that the invasion would be short-lived, no problem. Everyone clearly stated that we needed to focus on the aftermath; that—as you rolled us to war—we did not have adequate plans for what was to happen afterwards. They all agreed: we didn't seem to have a Plan B.
Your Administration was peppered with questions along the lines of "What is your plan for after the war?" and "What is your plan for the Peace?"
You and your White House spokespeople consistently said, "We have a plan." When asked what it was, your WH consistently replied, "We'll tell you when we get there."
You, and your whole administration, all smugly seemed to know better than the rest of us. And you told us that on an ongoing basis.
Well, George, now we've been there, and we've been through there, and we've gone back to there, and now we're just stuck there, George, dying monthly by the score.
We're still waiting for "The Plan."
And now we realize, it simply doesn't exist. The hard fact is: There Is No Plan.
Even today, after all this time, money and bloodshed, as you prepare to wrap yourself in the flag in your Acceptance Speech this week.
You still don't have a plan.
But, at least, George, you're now stepping up—like the man you always tell us you are—and you're taking some responsibility for your actions.
The daily said Bush refused to go into detail on what went wrong, saying that it was a task best left to historians.
Oh.
Uhmmm, forget what I just said. You are a coward, after all, George.
This will be taken up not by historians, George, but by reporters. And bloggers. And Moms, and Dads, and Sisters and Brothers and Spouses and thousands of Americans who don't even have loved ones in that bloody desert.
Bush said his policies on Iraq—where he fought a war despite strong international opposition—were "flexible enough" to respond to the insurgency.
He added that even now "we're adjusting to our conditions," in places like the city of Najaf, where US and Iraqi forces have been battling the militias of cleric Moqtada Al Sadr for weeks.
Your "condition" now, George, is that you've lost. The Iraq War is lost.
So we get more backpedaling and ass covering, due to your having absolutely no plan in place as you go. You're just making this stuff up along the way..
It's one thing to do that in a political campaign, W., it's quite another to "wing it" while bullets tear through American flesh.
"Historians" will already judge you as being among the worst presidents in history domestically, driving millions into poverty. But you're making damned sure they also say that you're one of the few American presidents to ever have lost a war. And the irony of it all? It was your own, personal war to boot, not the country's.
Maybe, that's why it was doomed to fail as spectacularly as it has.
You wagged the dog; and the dog bit back.
Amazing.
No, no... Not overly good for the text books, George.
posted by Gotham 12:41 PM
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