Bush's Cut and Run Iraq Die-in for 2008

It is apparent that President Floyd R., Turbo Bush has absolutely no idea of how to successfully conclude the Iraq War or to get our troops home without igniting what will assuredly be an obscene level of retaliatory bloodshed.

But the GOP doesn't feel there is any reason for them to worry about any of that. Why? That is a no brainer.

The Greedy Old Party already got off fairly cheaply in the past midterm elections with their mishandling of the war. Considering the longterm impact of this thing, which ranges from exacerbating already enormous budget deficits that potentially provide a crucial strategic asset to our enemies in China and Saudi Arabia, to pulverizing American prestige abroad while also strengthening that of terrorist groups and their supporters in Iran and Syria, they have proven incapable of managing any sort of crisis, be it domestic or military.

But what they do realize is that people tend to put more stock in their most recent memory of something. Since Iraq has become military quicksand for the neocons, it really doesn't behoove them to try to solve this thing. Instead, the gambit is to put the Democrats in a position to where they will either have to come up with a concrete plan for the administration, who will then take credit for it if it succeeds, or will say, "see, we told you they can't lead" if it fails.

What the GOP is actually hoping for isn't an actual concrete scheme from the Democrats, but for them to repeat what they did with Vietnam, cut off funding for it. Turbo can then say that Congress tied his hands since they wouldn't provide the money for the war on terrorism and, as the pictures come in of continued bloodshed and maybe even the Iranians marching on Baghdad, the public will recall those images when they go to the polls in the upcoming general election.

In other words, the Republicans are basically staging a die-in for American soldiers for electoral advantage. That Bush doesn't want to be overshadowed by James Baker and anything he might come up with is a dead giveaway because Bush is still attempting to look presidential (hah!) and in control even as Iraq gets further and further out of his grasp as time passes. So even if Baker devises the most brilliant strategy since the landing at Inchon, Bush won't hear it because it didn't come from him or his inner circle.

What the Democrats need to do is to call Bush on this. Tell him that they aren't going to hold his hand and that if all he can do is keep soldiers stationed overseas to use their sacrifice as an electoral tool he and Cheney should resign so that new President Nancy Pelosi will have all the tools available to help resolve this thing as coherently as possible.

Insist that Bush read the Constitution and know that he is the commander in chief. If he can't do his job then, like what happens in any battlefield situation when the general in charge isn't up to the task, he has to be relieved of duty. Furthermore, challenge Bush to finally do what is right for the country and not right for just him or his cronies with Halliburton and the party. Tell the country that Bush had the House of Saud bail him out of one of his bankrupt oil companies and now it is time for "Bhandar Bush (i.e., Saudi prince and Bush intimate Prince Bhandar) to step up to the plate for the U.S. or fuck off back home and take his BFF Bush with him.

That will cause the GOP to run McCain out there, but you just start calling him "John McNamara" and accuse him of wanting to escalate the war. Done, goodbye, get lost.

Yes, the GOP, which has stonewalled on revealing who was in those energy meetings with Cheney is now stonewalling peace as a hail mary for 2008. Let's hope that Pelosi, et al, don't fall for it.