Bush's Shrinking Safety Zone

[tw]

From the NY Times of 3 Nov 2006:

Congress Tells Auditor in Iraq to Close Office
Investigations led by a Republican lawyer named Stuart W. Bowen Jr. in Iraq have sent American occupation officials to jail on bribery and conspiracy charges, exposed disastrously poor construction work by well-connected companies like Halliburton and Parsons, and discovered that the military did not properly track hundreds of thousands of weapons it shipped to Iraqi security forces.

And tucked away in a huge military authorization bill that President Bush signed two weeks ago is what some of Mr. Bowen’s supporters believe is his reward for repeatedly embarrassing the administration: a pink slip.

The order comes in the form of an obscure provision that terminates his federal oversight agency, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, on Oct. 1, 2007. The clause was inserted by the Republican side of the House Armed Services Committee over the objections of Democratic counterparts during a closed-door conference,

When god says to steal from America, then clearly god does not want lawyers being more honest than god's chosen political party. Apparently god put that provision is the committee report. It just doesn't look good for god or for Republican extremists. God even wanted you to not read this post - or was that just another presidential lie.

Clearly god wanted this. Therefore it should not affect how you vote next week.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by tw

Therefore it should not affect how you vote next week.

That is ugly. Unfortunately, Dude, the fix is in, just like last time.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I think I'll take my camera to the polls.

[tw]

From the NY Times of 17 Nov 2006:

In Visit to Vietnam, Bush Cites Lessons for Iraq
In his first day in the capital of a country that was America’s wartime enemy during his youth, President Bush said today that the American experience in Vietnam contained lessons for the war in Iraq. Chief among them, he said, was that “we’ll succeed unless we quit.”
{italics mine}

[tw]

You may not have noticed. Troops would never publically contradict the president; say "Mission Accomplished" is flawed and wrong. Retired Generals were doing that talk many years ago when "Mission Accomplished" was justified using wacko conservative political righteousness. Some years later, every General that served in Iraq and then retired were warning of a failure we know as "Mission Accomplished". Finally, active duty troops are now talking - actually leaking. They are leaking intelligence assessments that apparently are not shared even with the Iraqi army or puppet government.

Marine Corp intelligence assessment for Anbar province last March has been updated - and leaked. Active duty troops telling you how much extremist conservatives and this president hate the troops. From the Washington Post of 28 Nov 2006:

Anbar Picture Grows Clearer, and Bleaker
The five-page report -- written by Col. Peter Devlin, a senior and seasoned military intelligence officer with the Marine Expeditionary Force -- is marked secret, for dissemination to U.S. and allied troops in Iraq only. ... Devlin suggested that without the deployment of an additional U.S. military division -- 15,000 to 20,000 troops -- plus billions of dollars in aid to the province, "there is nothing" U.S. troops "can do to influence" the insurgency.

No decent American or president would have put American soldiers into another Vietnam. Especially when the facts were so obvious that ... well in another post are examples of how long ago a loyal administration would have seen this civil war coming: Knowing Civil War is Coming if only in The Cellar . A loyal administration would never have put troops in this situation. A loyal administration - which means not extremist conservative choosen by god - would have gone after bin Laden.

Active duty troops provide numerical estimates - tens of thousands of troops and $billions just for one of Iraq's 18 provinces. Extremist conservative's hate for the troops has become so obvious that even active duty troops must leak reality and intelligence assessments. Go big or go home? George Jr's contempt for the American soldier was expressed today. He said American troops will not pull out. Does that mean 500,000 troops? No. George Jr will do anything to American soldiers so that defeat does not occur under his watch - just like Nixon. His legacy is more important than some dead soldiers. Active duty troops are now demonstrating how much contempt this president has for the American soldier.

[tw]

From the NY Times of 28 Nov 2006:

Bush to Pursue Fresh NATO Commitments
President Bush called on NATO countries Tuesday to boost their ability and willingness to battle Islamic extremism in Afghanistan and across the Middle East, ...

"We're in a long struggle against terrorists and extremists who follow a hateful ideology and seek to establish a totalitarian empire from Spain to Indonesia," Bush said in a speech at Latvia University as part of a meeting of the NATO members.

At this point, is there anyone with minimal junior high school science education that still believes those lies? In order to win the AFghan war, first, an enemy must be defined. Where is this Taliban that would attack Spain and Indonesia. It is called an insurgency. If a president cannot even define the enemy, well, this is a threat to the stability of NATO. A leader that cannot even define the enemy cannot create a strategic objective. An army without a strategic objective cannot win and has no exit strategy. What NATO country, other than one with an extremist conservative government, would deploy troops without a strategic objective? How does one define a strategic objecgtive if the enemy is not even correctly defined?

[tw]

From the Washington Post of 3 Dec 2006 Page B01:

Move Over, Hoover
Shortly after Thanksgiving I had dinner in California with Ronald Reagan's best biographer, Lou Cannon. Like many historians these days, we discussed whether George W. Bush is, conceivably, the worst U.S. president ever. Cannon bristled at the idea.

Bush has two more years to leave his mark, he argued. What if ...

He has almost two more years. A list of atrocities George Jr has performed only in his first two years. Destroy the Oslo Accords. Destroy the anti-ballistic missile treaty. Violate promises made to Russia thereby making Russia very nervous and slowly backing away from democracy. Stifled anti-terrorist abilities in America. Destroyed America's fabulous reputation and popularity throughout the world - see Turkey as a perfect example. Sat in a FL classroom reading a children's book and never once even authorized American fighter jets to protect America after being told "America is under attack". All but declared unilateral and unjustified war on Iran, Iraq, and N Korea. $billions on an anti-ballistic missile system that just does not work - as predicted. Learned the names of countries adjacent to Israel. A missile defense system predictated on threats that don't exist while completely ignoring warning of real threats (see Counterterrorism Security Group). Let Osama bin Laden go free. Invaded a country that was a threat to no one - Iraq. Proved what happens when American does not do nation building. Advocated government support and money to religion. Ecouraged the hatred and vicisousness never before seen in Washington complete with a ten fold increase in legalized bribery (ie K Street project). $450,000 'legalized bribery so that First Energy could continue operating a nuclear reactor with a potential 3 Mile Island problem and a hole in its containment dome.

... after six years in power and barring a couple of miracles, it's safe to bet that Bush will be forever handcuffed to the bottom rungs of the presidential ladder. The reason: Iraq.
... He has joined Hoover as a case study on how not to be president.