tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post5771502370821663434..comments2024-03-25T16:03:36.810-07:00Comments on The Existentialist Cowboy: Why Bush Cannot Leave IraqAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-35864106425536575112007-08-03T08:49:00.000-07:002007-08-03T08:49:00.000-07:00It's Bush's war. I want no part of it...nor do mil...It's Bush's war. I want no part of it...nor do millions of other Americans. It's HIS tar baby. Now --are we absolutely SURE that Bush will be done soon?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-40825387819089053032007-08-03T02:55:00.000-07:002007-08-03T02:55:00.000-07:00It's not Bush's war, it's America's war. Furtherm...It's not Bush's war, it's America's war. <BR/><BR/>Furthermore, Bush will be gone soon - even if a Dem gets in we won't be pulling out.<BR/><BR/>Your childish conspiracies are silly and boring.Kevitivityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16561567425551113334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-62504946815031458172007-04-12T21:47:00.000-07:002007-04-12T21:47:00.000-07:00Fuzzflash wrote: The Imbecile and his Outfit can't...Fuzzflash wrote: <BR/><BR/><I>The Imbecile and his Outfit can't leave Iraq because for Halliburton Blackwater & Allied:</I><BR/><BR/>That just about sums it up and it also illustrates the nature of Fascism, or as Mussolini called it: corporatism. <BR/><BR/>I suppose we should not have expected more. The American colonies, hence the US, were themselves the product of British Fascism --the driving force behind colonialism. <BR/><BR/>whig said...<BR/><BR/><I>I think Bill Richardson is the only man with the diplomatic skill to salvage this situation if he is elected president or made secretary of state in the next administration.</I><BR/><BR/>I have always had high hopes for Richardson. Let's hope for the best adn wish him well.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-13098021627563371152007-04-11T00:10:00.000-07:002007-04-11T00:10:00.000-07:00SadButTrue said...After shattering the Iraqi infra...SadButTrue said...<BR/><BR/><I>After shattering the Iraqi infrastructure and occupying the country, the first priority was not to rebuild that infrastructure, which at least would have had some small chance of winning some hearts and minds. The first priority was to start building permanent military bases and a palatial embassy in the Forbidden City known as the green zone. How could this not be perceived as imperialism by the Iraqis?</I><BR/><BR/>Indeed, Bush might abandon Iraq but he is not about to abandon those permanent bases. It is not only Iraqis who are alarmed at this blatant yankee imperialism. It is the entire region. <BR/><BR/><I>Condi Rice, so spectacularly lacking in foresight that her favorite sentence seems to begin with, 'who could have anticipated?'<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>Who could have foreseen that hijackers would use aircraft to crash skyscrapers, she asked. In fact, hundreds of people had foreseen just that. <BR/><BR/>Who could have foreseen civil war in Iraq, or at the very least, an urban struggle, a quagmire. Well...Bush Sr. for just one. <BR/><BR/>Whomever taught Condi the rejoinder "who could have anticipated...?" did her a great disservice. It doesn't get her or her stupid boss off the hook. It just makes the both of them look incredibly stupid, incompetent and inarticulate.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-39877006650510587372007-04-10T19:51:00.000-07:002007-04-10T19:51:00.000-07:00"I am inclined to say that Bush has no options."It..."<I>I am inclined to say that Bush has no options.</I>"<BR/><BR/>It doesn't appear that Bush wants to have any options, and when presented with any, he invariably rejects them out of hand. We have to parse carefully the phrase 'no exit strategy.' This is not just the lack of an exit strategy, it is a deliberate strategy that from the outset was designed to preclude any exit.<BR/><BR/> After shattering the Iraqi infrastructure and occupying the country, the first priority was not to rebuild that infrastructure, which at least would have had some small chance of winning some hearts and minds. The first priority was to start building permanent military bases and a palatial embassy in the Forbidden City known as the green zone. How could this not be perceived as imperialism by the Iraqis?<BR/><BR/>All of these repercussions could have easily been predicted beforehand, but Donald Rumsfeld threatened to fire anyone who even mentioned doing any post-invasion planning. Except perhaps by Condi Rice, so spectacularly lacking in foresight that her favorite sentence seems to begin with, 'who could have anticipated?'<BR/><BR/>I'm sure Cheney anticipated the outcome - last time I heard, hadn't his Halliburton holdings increased by 300%?SadButTruehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977090207448656065noreply@blogger.com