I read a brief piece today about disagreement between Bush and the unanimous joint chiefs over sending more troops. They don't feel he has a plan for what they would do there. The chiefs feel it would simply intensify anti-American groups while Shia militias melted away until the extra US troops left. Then they simply come back in greater force and we are right back where we started from.
Bush's problem plain and simple is that he can't admit the colossal mistake he's made. At least he's stopped talking about victory in Iraq. And to think he might still be worried about his legacy... He's already established his legacy as the worst foreign policy president in the history of the United States.
I don't know what the answer is at this point. I'm not necessarily for time tables on withdrawal. But there's no point in "staying the course" because there is no course other than "let's drive around, stop any bad guys we run into, and try not to hit an IED today." Brilliant!
This is a fine mess you've gotten us into, Bushy!
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Monday, December 04, 2006
John Bolton
Bolton turned in his resignation to Bush today as US Ambassador to the UN. Bush accepted it, but said he wasn't happy about it.
I haven't followed Bolton much since Bush decided to appoint him as interim, working around the Democratic filibuster and I believe even some Republican opponents at the time. I heard today of a few complaints against him, but by and large he doesn't seem to have messed up significantly.
All that is to say that I don't know whether he would be okay in the UN or not.
But it does seem to be a bit of justice today to see Bush having to accept his resignation in the face of a Democratic Congress. For the first five years or so in office Bush, Cheney, and friends did whatever they pleased while Fox News and others villified anyone who dared question their will.
I was thinking of that Dixie Chick and what Fox, Scarborough, and all had to say about her. There were other Hollywood voices that protested the war (who was that actor who played the president on West Wing) and the media pretty much skewered them. Of course I have no time for Michael Moore or that woman who lost her son and went off the deep end.
But it's time for a moment of truth. If we stop for a minute, some of the things they said turned out to be true about Iraq. It hurts, but the Fox News people should be forced to eat their words now that things are shaping up, well, exactly as those "filthy liberals" said they would back in 2003... 3000 dead soldiers later.
Look at what I blogged two years ago and apparently I understood what was going on in Iraq a lot better than a man who sits in an office getting daily intelligence briefings. What does that say?!
This started about Bolton. I don't know whether he is doing fine or not. But there is a whole lot of justice in Bush not being able to just do whatever he wants without consulting others.
(he ignored, almost shamed his father in his bull headedness to go to war and do what his father didn't. Well, he did what his father didn't. He has destabilized the whole world and potentially launched us into a period of American descendency).
Now watch it Democrats. I have seen in Nancy Palosi's early attempts at appointments the same dynamic potentially at work. ... rather than go with sane moderates, appointing her own set of whacko crazies. If God didn't spare the natural branches when he grafted you in, will he spare you?
P.S. Not to say that the Republicans are the original people of God :-)
I haven't followed Bolton much since Bush decided to appoint him as interim, working around the Democratic filibuster and I believe even some Republican opponents at the time. I heard today of a few complaints against him, but by and large he doesn't seem to have messed up significantly.
All that is to say that I don't know whether he would be okay in the UN or not.
But it does seem to be a bit of justice today to see Bush having to accept his resignation in the face of a Democratic Congress. For the first five years or so in office Bush, Cheney, and friends did whatever they pleased while Fox News and others villified anyone who dared question their will.
I was thinking of that Dixie Chick and what Fox, Scarborough, and all had to say about her. There were other Hollywood voices that protested the war (who was that actor who played the president on West Wing) and the media pretty much skewered them. Of course I have no time for Michael Moore or that woman who lost her son and went off the deep end.
But it's time for a moment of truth. If we stop for a minute, some of the things they said turned out to be true about Iraq. It hurts, but the Fox News people should be forced to eat their words now that things are shaping up, well, exactly as those "filthy liberals" said they would back in 2003... 3000 dead soldiers later.
Look at what I blogged two years ago and apparently I understood what was going on in Iraq a lot better than a man who sits in an office getting daily intelligence briefings. What does that say?!
This started about Bolton. I don't know whether he is doing fine or not. But there is a whole lot of justice in Bush not being able to just do whatever he wants without consulting others.
(he ignored, almost shamed his father in his bull headedness to go to war and do what his father didn't. Well, he did what his father didn't. He has destabilized the whole world and potentially launched us into a period of American descendency).
Now watch it Democrats. I have seen in Nancy Palosi's early attempts at appointments the same dynamic potentially at work. ... rather than go with sane moderates, appointing her own set of whacko crazies. If God didn't spare the natural branches when he grafted you in, will he spare you?
P.S. Not to say that the Republicans are the original people of God :-)
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