NEWS: Bush To Lay Out Latest Plan For Failure

POLITICS: Bush To Lay Out Latest Plan For Failure

Bush plans to give his "New Way Forward" speech this week

during which he will tell the American people his new plan to utterly fail in Iraq. According the BBC, the central theme of the speech will be "sacrifice." Sadly, he will not be telling us that he will sacrifice his daughters, but rather the sons and daughters of Americans in a war that is already lost.

Earlier this year we tried this plan. We took 20,000 troops from around the country and moved them into Baghdad, in an attempt to halt the sectarian violence. At first it worked, the killings slowed. But the militias adjusted and now killings are higher than they have ever been. Bush's "new" plan for Iraq is just a repetition of this failure.



Iraq is lost. It is a disaster. The President has only shown that whatever action he takes will make Iraq worse. We only need to look at the execution of Saddam Hussein to see how Bush is an epic failure. While Saddam stood with the noose around his neck, the crowd chanted, "Muqtada! Muqtada!" They were referring to Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric who controls the Mahdi Army. The same Mahdi Army we fought against in 2004 for control of the city of Najaf. Sadr is viewed as the biggest enemy of Bush in Iraq among Shiites. The Pentagon calls his militia "the main threat to stability in Iraq."



Saddam's trial was basically run out of the US embassy in Baghdad. He was held at a US military prison. His sentence was carefully orchestrated to be delivered just two days before the midterm elections. Saddam was flown to his execution in a US helicopter. But yet when he was about to be executed the Interior Ministry guards chanted the name "Muqtada!" In what should have been a heavily controlled environment, where camera phones should not have been allowed, where every caution should have been taken to make sure not to upset the Sunni population more, there was failure once again. The results were predictable.

If the American leadership could not stop the execution from being "infiltrated" by al-Sadr followers, they have no hope of controlling Baghdad with a few thousand more soldiers. The execution was just a microcosm of the disaster that is Iraq. Al-Sadr has grown roots into every level of the government and we have lost. Sending more soldiers is futile and stupid.

This makes me angry..
Looks like i'll be spending another year with 2 loved ones in Iraq.
Thanks a lot Bush

Words can not even begin to describe the amount of anger and frustration I have towards that man and this bullshit war he started.

I leave it at that before my head just up and explodes.

Keith Olbermann had some really interesting things to say about sacrifice. Check it out over on Crooks and Liars.

The Bush-Cheney alliance just keeps on churning out the same old hits....

a completely symbolic and political move at the expense of more human lives...no fuckin surprise !!! staying the course and replacing all the commanders with ones that agree and conform! the most unilateral and heinous adminstration in us history.

hint: avoid using google to look up word spellings. i initially typed 'hanus crime' (for context) in google and i got anus cream...so that delayed me for awhile.

Bush's new tactic will draw in more insurgents and result in a spike in U.S. troop casualties. The borders of Iraq are not secure. Insurgents will continue to roll in and enlist Iraqis to their cause. Things are only going to get worse.

The sad fact of the matter is that Bush isn't learning from his mistakes. He's changing his military leadership into a bunch of yes men. This is a really bad combination.

Congress needs to find a way to reign in the White House. The purse strings need to be pulled in a way that will protect the troops and our interests. Congressional investigations will take a long time to have an effect on Iraq policy.

This lame duck President needs to be shown some accountability. Perhaps then he will respectfully retreat from his position and use diplomacy to end this war.

Bush is totally incompetent as a military leader. Not only did he get us involved in Iraq without a reason or plan but he won't back off. What I can't understand is why so many people are stupid enough to jion the military now! I have convinced one fool not to reup but I have to wonder did the young people of this country not learn a thing from Nam. Without troops Bush could not pull this shit off.

i never post in these threads, but his dragging his feet for weeks, ignoring all advice, only to announce some predictable shit like this - i am filled with the unfulfillable urge to punch the motherfucker in the jaw.



fuck. i guess i will just scream into the void.

You're telling me! I'm in the army and I'll probably see some time "over there". Just so everyone knows, soldiers don't look forward to doing shit like this but it's in the job description. I just wish it was for a good cause instead.

i am filled with the unfulfillable urge to punch the
motherfucker in the jaw.

Please do, for me :-)

Well of course! I, for one, would just LOVE to see their stock portfolio.

The most important thing I learned about Vietnam is that when people don't enlist, the goverment uses this thing called The Draft.

Believe me.. A lot of us do realize that many of you guys don't want to be going over there. I've already lost two cousins and a friend from college to this war and none of them wanted to be over there. I think it's an example of how far our country has fallen when someone can send our friends and loved ones off to war without a damn good reason. I may not support our president or this war, but I have nothing but respect for anyone who ends up in Iraq. I just never thought I'd see the day that a president could put your lives in danger without a damn good reason, and then not be held accountable for it.. It's sad to say, but war is big business and the only ones benefiting from the US occupation of Iraq are corporations like Halliburton.. Certainly not the people of Iraq.

I truly hope that one day all of those responsible for this mess (especially Bush) will be put on trial and held accountable for their actions, their absolute miss-use of power, and their complete disregard for the lives of so many Americans who have died as a result of their agenda.

Good luck and get home safe!

This is ridiculous. He needs to enlist his daughters (enlist, not commission! i want them to be groundpounders), or better yet, he needs to go over there himself and fight in the trenches. I'm tired of my brothers and sisters in arms dying. I've lost numerous friends in all branches to this war. Now, he wants to send more of us. Why? If called to go back, I will, but this is a useless measure by a desperate man.

We will fight, because we follow our orders, but as Maddigan stated above, the after effects of this war will be long lasting. Much like when the Vietnam Vets got back, the re-adjustment to society will be a long and probably painful process.

Mr. Bush the 43rd is fighting a war that his country doesn't support and cannot win. I don't think Daddy is impressed.

The primary reason so many of you are saying that Bush is the worst president we've ever had is because you're young and don't remember Nixon. I'm convinced that both of them are/were criminally insane, but Dubya still has a ways to go before he'll dethrone Tricky Dick in my mind.

"Daddy" Bush DOESN'T agree! In fact, he told his lame-duck son (of a bitch) to stay away from this war but, like a village idiot, he took it upon himself to go in with guns-a-blazing. Of course, it's not his life on the line; it's ours. I can't appologize on his behalf but I will say this: I now understand why we are so hated. It makes me sick to think about how he stated that he's sooooo fucking sad about it all. I'm not sure if he's asking for trouble but...

Sacrifice
Constitutional freedoms
American Lives
Standing in the world
Morality
Common decency
Mideast peace
post 9/11 world sympathy
Truth

No Sacrifice
oil $$$
tax cuts
gas guzzlers
gluttony
war profiteering
mass mall consumerism frenzy
"reality" tv
unfettered commercialism
media monopolization
spin

Well, you're right that I'm not old enough to *remember* Nixon, but I've read about him and I'm pretty damn sure he wasn't as comprehensive a failure as Bush, much less as successful at pushing the unitary executive, or anywhere near as successful at distracting people (not everyone, but some people) from flagrantly impeachable behaviour. He was forced to resign, after all.

Though admittedly some of that was probably that he didn't have both houses of Congress bowing to his every whim for six fucking years.

Well, I've lived both and Dubya earns my nomination for persistence in promoting doctrine that he fully admits only a few screwballs support.

Not to mention the chilling effect his "war on porn" has had on this web site

Well I'm sure things are only going to change for the worse right now, since Saddam Hussein was just executed. Think about the timing for this plan...

if people aren't enlisting, there's an underlying reason. they should listen to that reason instead of going balls to the wall in forcing people to go to war.

of course, that would require an administration that gives a fuck about public opinion that goes beyond "Would you have a beer with the President", and a legislation with the balls to stand up to a idiotic dictator.

i think the REAL difference here was that Nixon was at least perceptive and intelligent, even if he had no scruples. he knew when he had lost.

as well, i think your opinion about the Congress at the end was fairly accurate.