Politics > Politics-USA > Bush's War: Sheer blundering and incompetence and a combination of arrogance and ignorance
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"Harry Hope" |
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12 May 2007 02:45:57 PM |
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Bush's War: Sheer blundering and incompetence and a combination of arrogance and ignorance |
http://www.neurope.eu/view_news.php?id=73738
Iraq – America’s “Perfect Storm”
EU
12 May 2007 - Issue : 729
As one views the unfolding tragedy in Iraq, now more than four years
in the making, as appalled as one has to be at the extent of the
destruction;
the untold deaths and suffering of Iraqi civilians;
the depths of brutality demonstrated by terrorists, sectarian militia
members, and occasionally by the US military itself, one is also left
with the feeling – even call it a fervent hope – that the failure now
being experienced by the world’s sole self-proclaimed superpower will
put paid to Washington’s project to foist its imperium, its Pax
Americana, to the far reaches of the globe.
For by sheer blundering and incompetence, a combination of arrogance
and ignorance, the administration of US President George W. Bush has
brought about that “perfect storm”, that lethal combination of
religious sectarianism, ethnic conflict, rampant corruption, Iraqi
governmental paralysis, and self-justifying American idealism’s
inability to face up to the facts of its self-made fiasco that is now
sweeping all away in its path.
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Harry
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| User: "F. Labergasted" |
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| Title: Re: Bush's War: Sheer blundering and incompetence and a combination of arrogance and ignorance |
12 May 2007 04:27:57 PM |
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In article <cb6c435u8pgnesfst7e0ihi4t94saanm3j@4ax.com>, Harry Hope
<rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
http://www.neurope.eu/view_news.php?id=73738
Iraq ö Americaâs ãPerfect Stormä
EU
12 May 2007 - Issue : 729
As one views the unfolding tragedy in Iraq, now more than four years
in the making, as appalled as one has to be at the extent of the
destruction;
the untold deaths and suffering of Iraqi civilians;
the depths of brutality demonstrated by terrorists, sectarian militia
members, and occasionally by the US military itself, one is also left
with the feeling ö even call it a fervent hope ö that the failure now
being experienced by the worldâs sole self-proclaimed superpower will
put paid to Washingtonâs project to foist its imperium, its Pax
Americana, to the far reaches of the globe.
For by sheer blundering and incompetence, a combination of arrogance
and ignorance, the administration of US President George W. Bush has
brought about that ãperfect stormä, that lethal combination of
religious sectarianism, ethnic conflict, rampant corruption, Iraqi
governmental paralysis, and self-justifying American idealismâs
inability to face up to the facts of its self-made fiasco that is now
sweeping all away in its path.
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Harry
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"Now it is not good for the Christian's health
to hustle the Aryan brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles,
and he weareth the Christian down,
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white
with the name of the deceased,
And the epitaph drear: " A Fool lies here
who tried to hustle the East'.
---Rudyard Kipling
(Eighty years ago the British also bombed out in Iraq)
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| User: "Citizen Jimserac" |
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| Title: Re: Bush's War: Sheer blundering and incompetence and a combination of arrogance and ignorance |
12 May 2007 04:23:19 PM |
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On May 12, 3:45 pm, Harry Hope <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
http://www.neurope.eu/view_news.php?id=73738
Iraq - America's "Perfect Storm"
EU
12 May 2007 - Issue : 729
As one views the unfolding tragedy in Iraq, now more than four years
in the making, as appalled as one has to be at the extent of the
destruction;
the untold deaths and suffering of Iraqi civilians;
the depths of brutality demonstrated by terrorists, sectarian militia
members, and occasionally by the US military itself, one is also left
with the feeling - even call it a fervent hope - that the failure now
being experienced by the world's sole self-proclaimed superpower will
put paid to Washington's project to foist its imperium, its Pax
Americana, to the far reaches of the globe.
For by sheer blundering and incompetence, a combination of arrogance
and ignorance, the administration of US President George W. Bush has
brought about that "perfect storm", that lethal combination of
religious sectarianism, ethnic conflict, rampant corruption, Iraqi
governmental paralysis, and self-justifying American idealism's
inability to face up to the facts of its self-made fiasco that is now
sweeping all away in its path.
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Harry
As each month of Bu$h's failed presidency ticks by
more and more Republicans realize the necessity
of repudiating Bush's attitude of arrogance and refual
to admit error. That same kind of arrogance
can be seen in the likes of the now despised Attorney
General Gonzales who dares sit in front of the
UNITED STATES CONGRESS and then have
the audacity to claim that he does not know
who instigated the firings of the U.S. Attorneys.
Always at the ready to turn the conversation to
side issues and irrelevancies, I would have given anything to
see Gonzales as secretary of defense talking his
way out of what went wrong with the Iraq war.
If anyone could have done it, he could.
Each month that goes by, another powerful Republican
representative or senator is weakened, as are the
republican presidential candidates, motley and pathetic
bunch though they may be, by the "President's"
absolute refusal, so reminiscent of Lyndon Johnson,
to accept that not only have things gone badly wrong
but also that the entire Iraq initiative and any initial
successes that it might have had, have been wiped
away by the strategic blunders of a global duffer,
a tyro, a President who was so good at projecting
the folksy cracker barrel attitudes of the phony
Texican that he pretends to be that he forgot
to realize that in on the world stage his pretenses
would be exposed and exploited by players
far more ruthless and astute than he.
BUSH is now forced to spend the remainder of his term
crying out that if only he had been given enough troops,
if only they had tried a little harder and stayed al little
longer, if only they had been tougher on Iran,
if only he had had the right general from the start, then
victory, whatever the current monthly definition
of that might be, would have been his - forgetting
that these were the exact same arguments
of the esteemed strategists of the Vietnam War.
Citizen Jimserac
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