Failure. Utter and complete failure. Massive failure on all fronts

[WilliamPitt]

Bush weighs a new course in Iraq

By Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott
Knight Ridder News Service

http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Aug/08292003/nation_w/nation_w.asp

WASHINGTON -- Alarmed by mounting casualties and staggering costs in Iraq, a growing number of top Bush administration officials have concluded that the current U.S. strategy is unsustainable and are looking for ways to increase United Nations involvement, American officials and foreign diplomats said.

The sharp course corrections under consideration, they said, include creating a multinational U.N. peacekeeping force with continued U.S. military command, giving the world body a larger role in rapidly transferring governance back to Iraqis, and seeking greater international financial contributions.

The proposals would mark a dramatic departure for President Bush and his top aides, who went to war in Iraq without explicit U.N. approval.

None of the proposals has been adopted yet. Officials in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney and some civilian officials who work for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are resisting any broader international involvement in Iraq, which, in their view, would disrupt plans for a U.S.-initiated remaking of the Middle East.

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So let's list. These dumbshits:

- Failed to capture Hussein
- Failed to get control of the oil (it's getting blown up every day)
- Failed to pacify the populace
- Demonstrably failed to come through with the promised 'freedom'
- Failed to find one iota of evidence - Christ, even faked evidence - to justify their war rush
- Failed to get the lights on

Failure. Absolute literal failure on all fronts.

They killed nearly ten thousand civilians, paraded the bodies of Uday and Qsay around like trophy bucks, and got 300+ American troops killed, along with God only knows how many wounded and maimed and sick and permanently fucked in the head from what they've seen and been ordered to do.

Oh, yeah, by the way, we routed a fifth-rate army eviscerated by a decade worth of sanctions. We made a Republican Guard commander named al Tikriti rich buy buying the keys to Baghdad's gates off him. We tore down a statue. Halliburton got paid.

Even I, I, the professional Bush critic, cannot even begin to fathom the depth and breadth of this failure. They didn't even achieve any of the shadowy, sinister goals they didn't tell anyone about. The oil is a mess, and another war in that region is just out of the question right now.

Failure. Absolute literal failure on all fronts. Even the secret ones.

They have lost this thing. I'm staggered. THEY CAN'T EVEN COME TO A CONSENSUS ABOUT WHAT TO DO about the fact that they have lost this thing, and have to deal with maniac bitter-enders like Rumsfeld with his fingers in his ears saying la-la-la.

Amazing. Unprecedented. Vietnam in less than six months.