BUSH'S URGE TO SURGE ... (another symptom of Vietnambien Syndrome) ===>

[BLUSH]

President Bush is expected to call for sending as many as 40,000 additional troops to Vietnam — I mean Iraq — next week. Escalating the war is now being called a “surge.” Stay the course has been relabeled. It’s the new way forward. We did this in Vietnam, remember? The U.S. kept sending more troops over there, which only led to more people dying.

The same thing will happen in Iraq. The United States is now an occupying army presiding over a civil war in Iraq. There is no way forward, just more death, injury and the squandering of our national treasury. This country has its belly full of this failed operation in Iraq. Read any public opinion poll.

Jack Cafferty

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20070105_cnns_cafferty_deflates_bush_rhetoric/

[BLUSH]

1. Iraq and Vietnam ...

No amount of escalation, the new Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford told (President) Johnson, would bring about the defeat of the opposition forces.

The post-Tet discussions also highlighted other problems that have close parallels in Iraq today. In both wars, the difficulty of fighting indigenous forces has been a central problem. In neither Vietnam nor Iraq did U.S. officials know much about the history, culture and politics of the countries to which they chose to send forces. It was assumed that the United States would be welcomed, the fighting would be quick and the results would provide a model for other nations to follow.

Most important, despite written constitutions and elections, the Iraqi and South Vietnamese governments lack(ed) legitimacy, making nation building impossible.

The overall point of the Baker-Hamilton report is similar to that given to Lyndon Johnson by the Wise Men. Iraq is unwinnable.

Bush's rejection of the ISG's ideas stems from his unwillingness to accept that his policy has failed. If the current fighting, along with the congressional elections, does not bring about a true strategic reassessment and a policy distinction being made between the war in Iraq and the battle against terrorism, we might be in for a long, drawn out withdrawal, similar to the Nixon years in Vietnam, that just delays the inevitable.

David F. Schmitz

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/298453_iraq05.html

[Tellurian]

5. Bush should be asked to PURGE and declassify ENERGY documents

If they've done nothing wrong; what have they to fear? :)

[BLUSH]

6. Bush has everything to fear

This year's hearings are going to be explosive ... what we're going to learn will probably make Watergate look like small potatoes.

[BLUSH]

2. Wake-Up Calls In Iraq

People always ask me about a New Year's resolution," Bush told reporters Thursday after meeting with his War council at his Crawford ranch. "My resolution is, is that (the soldiers) will be safe and that we'll come closer to our objective, that we'll be able to help this young democracy survive and thrive and, therefore, we'll be writing a chapter of peace."

Bush is dreaming now; sleepwalking through history, like he slept through the execution of Saddam. "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ron_full_061231_three_thousand_wake_.htm

[BLUSH]

3. another toon

[Imagevision]

4. Bush is attempting to pull off another Gulf Of Tonkin Incident...

[BLUSH]

7. That incident happened four years ago

when he linked 9/11 to Iraq ... the lie he used to justify the war.

[DemoTex]

8. It's more like Nixon's Cambodian incursion (1970) and/or Lam Son 719 (1971)

I was a participant in the Lam Son 719 debacle and I am a student of that fiasco. I see us at that point-in-time, more or less, in Iraq.

[BLUSH]

9. How interesting

the only two wars America lost were lost by REPUBLICAN presidents.

[BLUSH]

10. Bush Nixon

[DemoTex]

11. Never in history has the US military been commanded by an AWOL.

I find it so disgusting that the very contemplation of Bu$h-in-Charge raises my blood pressure to dangerous levels.

[BLUSH]

12. Bush wasn't AWOL

Don't you know he was protecting Texas from the commies back in the 70s?

:sarcasm:

[DemoTex]

13. My comments on that from 2/21/2004 back here on DU:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/02/21_lies.html

[BLUSH]

14. there's a pretty cool site devoted to that subject alone

http://www.awolbush.com/