The Great Iraq Flip Flop...

FIRST...we were going into Iraq because it was an imminent threat armed with weapons of mass destruction.
THEN...the notion that our successful invasion was "monocausal" (a dee-lightful neologism straight out of the punditariat's revised lexicon of disdainspeak) was derided in the post coital glow of victory
Anyway those weapons of mass destruction were sure to turn up once Chalabi created a democratic government in Baghdad-didn't all the US columnists say so?
MEANWHILE...The President got all tarted up in a real naval aviator's flight suit and flew off to the carrier Abraham Lincoln and sneered triumphantly under a banner reading "Mission Accomplished".
Don Imus, Mike Barnicle, and a host of sad naive commentators all but publicly masturbated at this edifying spectacle.
THEN...violence flared up and up compelling our forces to shoot em' up, that is when we weren't passing out bread or negotiating with fiery wowser Imams for the sake of our own security.
WHICH...only inflamed the likes of Sadr etcetera to escalate the situation, win over the street, and present the Imams, wowsers and pro-Iran factions with a fait accompli.
SO...While our brave boys and girls are getting shot at on behalf of NO democratic solution and NO discernible WMDs...this administration dithers, babbles like a retardate, and starts recruiting Saddam's old Baathist veterans to help keep the peace.
APPARENTLY...these liberty loving worthies will be the loyal democratic cohort that'll form a counterweight to the religious fanatics and armed militias of Islamic wowserism.
SO...I ask you all....how long before we trash the feeble dilettantes on the Iraqi National Council and simply bring Saddam back to run this miserable god-awful shit-house?
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The truth is, we have no Iraq policy.
Whenever Bush gets backed into a corner on this, he literally starts up with the glossolalia or else throws out a few grudging policy notions cribbed from John Kerry and goes on vacation.
What we have instead of a policy, is a series of fond delusional hopes all hanging off a calendar date that will more than likely simply mark the start of general uprising in Iraq.
If Newsweek is to be believed, we are feeding soldiers into this conflict that are indifferently trained and worse, poorly equipped.
Within a month, the Pentagon will likely ask for even more troops for this catastrophe....which promises more and more casualties as the summer wears on.
I think most Americans are waiting to see if the June 30th deadline is kept.
However given what we've seen to date, the violence will simply continue because that is the Iraqi factions way of pushing towards a full coalition pull out.
At some point after more soldiers are killed for no reason, Bush will simply pull in his horns and try in his clumsy arrogant way to internationalize the whole mess.
By then it will be too late though....the factions will be on the march and naught will keep them at bay.
After that the real game will be afoot as to who seizes power in Iraq for all times to come.
Iraq may well fall apart like the Sudan or Yugoslavia in due course and it will be a source of misery, fear, violence, terrorists, and refugees for a long long time to come no matter who gets elected this fall.
And yet somehow John Kerry is derided as a flip-flopper....

Sick
Demented
Typical...