THIS GUY REALLY REALLY HATES BUSH!
http://isbushantichrist.blogspot.com/Thursday, January 11, 2007
Repost: Bush is Determined To Escalate the War & Increase the Killing
Rather than posting anything new about Bush’s speech, I figured I’d just say
‘I told you so’ and re-post what I wrote before Christmas.
I would however note that during the speech, he had the same ‘deer-in-the-headlights’ expression he had just before he invaded Iraq, and the day before he stole the 2004 election. It’s the look of a small boy when they’ve done something terribly wrong, but when you ask them what they’ve done, they lie and say, “nothing.” Yet you know it’s something terrible, because they have this frightened and guilty expression on their face.
It’s the same with Bush. Apart from sending the additional troops, he revealed next to nothing about his true intentions. He only uses words to disguise and spin the truth. But you could tell by his expression he was leaving out a whole lot more than he was saying, and that he intends to do something profoundly evil.
Everyone’s speculating about what Bush will do next – whether he’ll heed the advise of the Iraq study group, Congressional Democrats, and the vast majority of the American people, and start pulling our troops out of Iraq. Or will he put a new face on an old pig called ‘stay the course’? (Not anymore we aren’t) But they’re overlooking what he's obviously decided, which is neither to admit defeat and begin cutting our losses, nor just hanging on in Iraq for another two years. Bush will intentionally widen and escalate the conflict in the Middle East, (his speech last night was just the first example) and there are several reasons why.
First because it happened before, under another sleazy Republican president named Nixon. Keep in mind that the same team of experts that helped Nixon escalate the bombing and lose the war in Vietnam, were put in charge of the war in Iraq. (Cheney began working for Nixon in 1969) They have the same plans, ideas, attitudes, and even the same slogans like "staying the course", "support our troops" and "fighting them over there so we won't have to fight them here."
Richard Nixon would never admit defeat in Vietnam, or learn from his mistakes. He was afraid of becoming the first American president to lose a war. So he widened the war, bombed and invaded Cambodia, all in a desperately futile attempt to cut off supplies to the Communist insurgency. Only instead of helping to win the war in Vietnam, he started in motion a chain of events that eventually handed Cambodia over to the communists. Understand the bitter and tragic irony involved: that after fighting ten years and sacrificing 58,000 men for the beloved ‘domino theory’ of Communist expansion, the only domino that actually fell in SE Asia is the one we tipped over by continuing the war, and refusing to admit it was lost. (In the same way Nixon argued that expanding the war into Cambodia would enable us to bring our troops home, Bush is now arguing that escalating the Iraq war will, “hasten the day our troops begin coming home.")
Vietnam’s parallel with Iraq is hard to miss. It’s our presence in Iraq that’s helping to fuel terrorism around the world – the very thing we supposedly went there to stop. But the similarity doesn’t end there. Cambodia’s parallel is now Iran, and their role in supplying the Iraqi insurgency. Can anyone guess the next act in this tragedy? Bush is already building up naval forces in the region. (He announced in his speech that he was sending another carrier strike group “to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and dominating the region.” He also mentioned Iran six times in his speech, saying Iran was “providing material support for attacks on American troops” and declaring, “We will interrupt the flow of support from Iran and Syria.” In spite of the fact most of the support is coming from Jordan, our ally.)
If he succeeded in lying about the danger of Iraq’s nuclear program, though it didn’t exist, how difficult would (will) it be to create an immanent threat from Iran, when they do have a nuclear program? Or to blow some minor incident into an excuse for widening the war?
The real point being that Bush has painted himself into a corner in Iraq, where the only alternative he understands is to widen the war and up the stakes in the chance that he can still win. Because to admit the war in Iraq is lost, and begin cutting our losses and bringing the troops home, is the same as admitting he’s a failed president. Yet to continue on the same course is politically impossible – conditions in Iraq continue to deteriorate, and the political situation at home and in Congress has radically changed.
The only hope he has of saving his presidency is to up the anti in the (completely delusional) chance that the enemy (whoever that really is) will suddenly fold. Like a really, really bad poker player, and one who's betting with other people’s money and lives, Bush will stay in the game in Iraq and keep adding more bodies to the pot until he is stopped.(apparently he cannot be stopped) He doesn’t care how much or how many we lose - the game he’s played has always been about politics and greed, pride and ego. If this had anything whatsoever to do with terrorism and national security we would never have gone there in the first place.
Bush sees himself as confronting a massive conspiracy by the evildoers – I believe those are his exact words. He is nurturing the self-serving delusion of vanquishing the forces of evil - and not just in Iraq. He’s not about to lose his spot in the rapture before getting the apocalypse off to a credible start. After all, how can he really save the world except by first destroying it? (in his speech he warned of “mass killings on an unimaginable scale” and said he "will make the year ahead bloody and violent.") The greatest evil is always done for the greater good, and by crazy people who can’t see how evil they really are.
There is also the issue of the new Democratic Congress. For the first time in six years, the Bush regime will be subject to intense oversight and numerous investigations. It'll be like suddenly turning the light on a moldering infestation of roaches and rats. Bush is not only feeling pressure to change the situation in Iraq, but soon the heat over what he’s been doing, and all the laws he’s been breaking in the meantime. The best, and perhaps the only way out for him now will be to create the wider war and national security crisis that would make the investigations irrelevant, unpatriotic, or even seditious.
The upshot is that the more things deteriorate in Iraq and the longer investigations continue, the more Bush will be determined to create a wider crisis and conflict in the Middle East. He must either create a crisis – like the Iranian nuclear threat, or overreact to one – like with another terrorist attack on American soil. Or it may be that the situation in Iraq will deteriorate so far so fast (especially with more US troops and a few more disastrous decisions like lynching Saddam Hussein) that the rest of the Middle East will be drawn into the conflict in due course. The inevitability of much wider conflict with American forces squarely in the middle of it will greatly increase rather than diminishing over the next two years, (make that the next several months) in spite of what most Americans want.
If poll numbers were dollars Bush might care what most Americans think. But since they’re not, the only opinions he still cares about are ones with lots of dollars attached. That’s always been how he’s governed, and how absolutely corrupt he is. And just because things didn’t work out in the last election, doesn’t mean he’s had a complete change of heart or a character transplant. (Maliki’s government is giving complete control of Iraq’s oil to US oil companies. That’s exactly why Bush loves him and will do anything to support his corrupt goverment.)
Bush intends to go directly against the voters, Congress, and even the joint chiefs of staff, and contrary to what the media is saying it's not because he has the courage of his convictions. It's because his convictions and principals have already been bought and sold to the highest bidders - especially the oil companies. His convictions all have dollar signs. When Bush looks at Iraq, he doesn’t see the mangled, bloodied bodies of tens of thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis – all he sees is green. He sees the billions of dollars in no-bid government contracts to be handed out to his cronies, and the largest untapped oil reserves in the world. That’s why he sleeps well at night when better men couldn’t. Because instead of counting sheep, Bush counts corporate profits. Do you really think Bush has the character or willpower to swallow his pride and give up the spoils of war? Yea, right. Their conscience can’t bother those who haven’t any.
Don’t kid yourself, and don’t be taken in by all the media propaganda. American foreign policy is still being made by a small cabal within the administration (esp Dick Cheney) – the same corrupt and incompetent know-it-alls who kept us in Vietnam and led us into Cambodia. The thing to remember is that whatever Bush is saying bears no possible resemblance to the truth. 'He's a liar and the father of it.' That includes working with Congress, (he just proved he won’t – the Democrats were informed of his decision rather than consulted.) taking the advise of his generals, (he just fired another two top generals for disagreeing with him) or a ‘temporary surge' of troops into Iraq. (he didn’t say the additional 2,500 troops was temporary, and he didn’t say it was the last escalation) It will eventually become clear to everyone that the only way out of Iraq is a double-headed impeachment - if that’s not already too late. (It’s likely too late)
posted by R. Stephen Hanchett at 11:03 AM
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