Conservative Watcher Bill Berkowitz draws parrallel between...

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...Richard Nixon's "Madman Policy" against North Vietnam and Bush's stategy to win in Iraq and both are insane.

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Bush's Iraq Fallu-cination
Bill Berkowitz - WorkingForChange

09.23.04 -

“I call it the Madman Theory, Bob. I want the North Vietnamese to believe I've reached the point where I might do anything to stop the war. We'll just slip the word to them that 'for God's sake, you know Nixon is obsessed about Communists. We can't restrain him when he's angry -- and he has his hand on the nuclear button' -- and Ho Chi Minh himself will be in Paris in two days begging for peace."
--Richard M. Nixon, as reported by aide H.R. Haldeman

On the campaign trail earlier this summer, President Bush was fond of saying "We are turning the corner, and we are not turning back." According to the president, under his stewardship the US had turned the corner on the economy, education, health care and national security. Along about mid-August, he “apparently turned a corner in his use of what had been a popular refrain in recent campaign stump speeches,” CNN reported, dropping the “turning the corner” catchphrase from his repertoire. Well, the president has turned another corner and this time he has smashed into a brick wall of criticism about his failed policy in Iraq.

If he follows the advice of the mow-’em-downers and the flush-’em-outers, President Bush will turn Fallujah -- a cauldron of Iraqi resistance -- into rubble; fill the city’s under-staffed and under-equipped hospitals with the pulpy remnants of men, women and children; and unleash US bombers that will create a rebuilding project that even Bechtel might have second thoughts about taking on.

<link> http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=17736

To George W. Bush 3,000 dead Iraqi children every month may look like a decisive, steadfast and unwavering policy to try to gain submission from the Iraqi people and terrorists, but somehow I don't see that working in America's long term foreign policy interests.