There is plenty of blame to go around - starting with Bush, the warmongers, the hawks, and consenting Democrats like Clinton, Edwards, Biden, Dodd - everyone who voted to autorize President Bush to use force against Iran in what he said would only be "as a last resort" and Democrats said "would strengthen the President's hand at the diplomacy table." What a joke!
I and many others knew AT THE MOMENT that Bush talked about "Uranium from Africa" it was a lie and we knew the aluminum tubes were for missiles and not centrifuges and the mobile biological warfare labs were suspect too. There was a rush to war in Iraq - plain and simple - with no serious debate beforehand.
Iraq is spiraling downward. The U.S. is not and cannot act as a police force in Iraq. We can't stop the sectarian violence - but if we leave - that takes away the jihaddist appeal and the insurgency won't have us as a target. Iraq will settle down. Bush doesn't want this because Iran is a winner in that scenario.
The "soft partition" of Iraq may or may not work - certainly it will not work under U.S. aegis - and it won't work if Kurdistan becomes a truly independent state. Turkey and Iran will not tolerate a greater Kurdistan. No Sunnistan will be peaceful with a Shiastan and a Kurdistan hogging or controlling Iraq's oil reserves.
Bushco has engineered one hell of a mess - but we must extract ourselves from the equation. The Brzezenski 4 point peace plan calls for a regional peace conference, a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, and an international fund to reconstruct Iraq. I would rather spend $245 billion on an international fund for reconstruction than another two years of fruitless war. We could predicate the release of those funds on a cessation of violence in Iraq.
There are ways out of the maze but Bush is too stupid, greedy, corrupt, and arrogant to begin to explore the various plans and seriously consider an exit strategy. The American people are way ahead of George W. Bush and history will leave Bush in the dust.
Only dead-enders want to stay in Iraq Hotlist by kos [Daily Kos front-page story] Fri Feb 02, 2007 at 03:01:13 PM PST
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