Bush, the elder, provided Bush, the lesser, with a semi face saving opportunity with the Iraq Study Group. Bush, the lesser, desparate to try to rescue the legacy his handlers told him he would have when they told him to go to war, is now apparently going to call for "sacrifice" and completely ignore the recommendations of the Study Group. In conjunction with this he is going to ask for a "surge" of 20,000 more troops and an additional billion dollars to throw after the billions already embezzled in the supposed rebuilding of Iraq's infrastructure. This is the "new way forward" that he is supposedly going to propose after having a "listening tour". I wish I were articulate enough and had a sufficient command of the English language to adequately express how truly corrupt and amoral I believe this is. I just don't have the words.
This can not be truly viewed as anything other than a ill conceived and desparate smoke screen to delay the inevitable until after his term expires. Bush has not seen fit to call for any sacrifice by the American people in his war so far, other than the sacrifice of their sons and daughters and the sacrifice of the future economic viability of the United States.
The throwing of further troops into this horribly designed meat grinder can not help but result in increased deaths of both U.S. troops and Iraqis. 3,000 dead troops, tens of thousands of other troops injured and maimed, over 600,000 Iraqis killed and nobody knows how many others injured, rendered homeless or without family.
Bush did this.
Comparatively, Saddam was a pussy.
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