As Common Dreams reports
While Bush, true to his self-image as an uncommonly firm leader in the mold of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, is undoubtedly sincere in his determination to press ahead, political circumstances -- not to mention the accelerating slide into an appalling civil war in Iraq -- are clearly conspiring against him.
The signs of eroding support for Bush's "stay-the-course" strategy are virtually everywhere in Washington, where senior Republicans, such as the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, John Warner, are moving into open revolt against what they see as a rapidly deteriorating situation and Bush's bullheadedness in still believing that Iraq will somehow become a model for democratic transformation in the Middle East.
Here's my list on what happened since Dubya brought democracy (read:imperalism) to Iraq in 2003:
- Revival of Shiite and Sunni faction war resulting of bunch of innocent civilians killed for their only crime is being born sunni or Shiite,
- Death Squad's representing the factions disguised as Iraqi Police
- Rising iraqi civilian death toll
- A rising Islamic state.
- Al Queda and other terrorist elements in Iraq that were not there before the 2003 invasion.
Need I say more?
At the same time, the neo-conservative New York Sun reported last week that the so-called "Iraq Study Group" (ISG), a blue-ribbon task force created last spring by Congress to develop a bipartisan strategy on Iraq, was considering four basic options, two of which, including a "stay-the-course" strategy and an immediate withdrawal, had been ruled out its members.The reason why all this crap is happening in Iraq is that we are there. Iraq has elected their leaders, formed a government and has soverignity rule. We just need to leave Iraq, NOW. Once we leave, all the terrorist will have no reason to terrorise Iraqis's. It's either that or the same thing will happen to Iraq as in the Vietnam war.
Of the two left, according to the Sun account, one, "Stability First", calls for continuing efforts to stabilize Baghdad, major new initiatives to coax Sunni insurgents into the political process, and a regional effort, including Iran and Syria -- with which the administration has refused so far to deal directly -- to cut off arms supplies to militias and help reduce the violence.
The second option, called "Redeploy and Contain", appears similar to a plan floated last year by the Center for American Progress and subsequently endorsed by most Democratic lawmakers. It calls for a gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops to bases outside Iraq from which they could strike against terrorist targets in Iraq or elsewhere in the region.
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