GW is just bullheaded.. has got to be.. I mean all the top people, (excepting the inner most circle of cronies), practically begged him not to put more troops on the line.
And off he goes and declaims that this is the winning strategy.. that he didn't want to announce before the mid term elections for fear it might affect the outcome.
Mmmm, yeah, I can see how if a republican president announced upping troop levels for a vastly unpopular war, (ignoring the fact that every excuse given for going in was disproven), might have an affect.
As it stood the republican party lost their strangle hold on the congress. I guess that what our dear leader feared was that the people would have turned out even more g.o.p. members of the house and senate to pasture.
And I just love the 'snow' job that the WH press secratary did on the idea that opposing raising the troop levels would 'give aid' to the terrorists. Firstly, the leaders of those people come from a part of the world that invented writing.. and algebra fer crissake.. you have to be asleep with you head in the sand to think that they can't read between the lines of what has already been broadcast far and wide.
It would be nice if some of the yahoos in the inner circus.. I mean circle would read up on how well other external nations faired in maintaining control over that region.. hint, check into the methods the Ottoman Empired employed?.. oops you can't do that any more can you.. and that means using the Mongols techniques are out the window too.. I suppose the English.. but no they didn't have much luck there either.
The fact of the matter is that you can't force democracy on people who are as intractable as the people in the middle east are, and if you try you'll draw back a bloody stump where the hand you had was that you tried to use on them.
They feud.. they've feuded for centuries. And now they have a new partner they can hate and feud with too.
Smooth move.
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