Dying for W By Robert Parry

[BuyingThyme]

Dying for W

By Robert Parry
April 25, 2007


George W. Bush admits he has no evidence that a withdrawal timetable from Iraq would be harmful. Instead, the President told interviewer Charlie Rose that this core assumption behind his veto threat of a Democratic war appropriation bill is backed by “just logic.”

“I mean, you say we start moving troops out,” Bush said in the interview on April 24. “Don’t you think an enemy is going to wait and adjust based upon an announced timetable for withdrawal?”

It is an argument that Bush has made again and again over the past few years, that with a withdrawal timetable, the “enemy” would just “wait us out.” But the answer to Bush’s rhetorical question could be, “well, so what if they do?”

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So, a Bush victory in the funding showdown with congressional Democrats might lead to some high-fiving at the White House and mean that President Bush will have saved some political face. But the prospect of an open-ended war will condemn Iraqis and American soldiers alike to nightmarish months ahead and the certainty of many more deaths.

In effect, they will be asked to die for W.


http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/042507.html

[necso]

1. "Keep false hope alive."

is a great line.

And apt.

[BuyingThyme]

2. ‘False Hope’

'Surging' Toward Failure in Iraq

By Robert Parry
April 10, 2007

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‘False Hope’

The “surge” was a way to buy time for Bush’s legacy – to palm off inevitable defeat on his successor – even at the cost of many more American and Iraqi lives. It was like the riff by Comedy Central’s Lewis Black about “keeping false hope alive.” That has been Bush’s pattern for the past four years.

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Bush needed to “keep false hope alive” if he was to fend off anti-war legislation. So was born the “surge,” less a new military strategy than a political tactic. The American people were pointed toward another mirage.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/040907.html

[necso]

3. Yeah, I read it

(back when). It's a line that gets better with repetition; that is, as its repetition parallels -- and counterpoints -- the endless repetition (by the neocons and their media flunkies) of some version of "keep hope alive." (Although "keep fear alive" may be the more penetrating propaganda-gambit.)

[Postman]

4. "Wait" for what? Wait to attack? They're already doing that....

Wait to take over the govt? They already have....

This jackhole knows full well its a lost cause. Everything else is just a delaying tactic until his ass is out of office, to lay it all on a Democratic President.