Well, the much awaited Iraq Study Group Report has come out. Seventy-nine recommendations for the president and congress. “The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating.”- ISG Report, 2006
The conclusion of the ISG, as well as the newly appointed Defense Secretary Robert Gates, is that the Bush policy has been a failure. No kidding.
I have one favor to ask. Can someone please explain to me what the point of electing Bush was?
Every single optimistic comment the president made these last two years has been shown to be pure bullshit.
I have to agree with Pat Buchanan that “the entire establishment of the federal government has failed this nation, just as they did in Vietnam.” The ISG recommendations are flawed because they 1) are too numerous to institute in a timely fashion and 2) are often unrealistic, such as expecting that a ragtag group of Iraqi police will be able to quell violence that the US military can't.
I agree with President Bush that there is "no easy exit." It may not be easy, but we do need to exit. It's useless to review all the "what ifs" of securing borders, training Iraqis, preventing looting, refraining from torture... We lost.
Whether we stay or go, we are screwed, and our allies will be killed. We can't stay because we are losing. We can't pull out because we'll leave chaos and even more death and destruction. We can't increase our troop numbers because we don't have enough soldiers, and even if we did, we don't have an endpoint.
“How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” -- John Kerry, 1972.
It took 10 people from both parties a total of 8 months and over 200 interviews of generals, congresscritters and strategists to figure this out? Some of us knew this years ago.
Bush is a failure.
But then, Bush has been a failure his entire life, so who would expect something different this time?
Shame on Bush. Shame on anyone who voted for him-- you should have known better.
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