This must be NEW MEME: "Bush losing war, that's why unwinnable"

[Dems Will Win]

We've lost control of 40% of Iraq (Anbar Province), plus the al-Sadr Rebellion in Baghdad (3 million in al-Sadr City), plus the al-Sadr Rebellion in Najaf and other cities.

Bush has already lost the war, fighting it this way with gunships and air strikes, unemployment and little reconstruction.

Fundamentalists maintain control of 2 key Iraqi cities

By John F. Burns and Erik Eckholm
The New York Times

BAGHDAD, Iraq — While U.S. troops were battling Shiite militants in Najaf, events in two Sunni Muslim cities that stand astride the crucial western approaches to Baghdad have moved significantly against American plans to build a secular democracy in Iraq.

Both of the cities, Fallujah and Ramadi, and much of surrounding Anbar Province are now controlled by fundamentalist militias, with U.S. troops confined mainly to heavily protected forts on the desert's edge.

What little influence the Americans have is asserted through wary forays in armored vehicles, and by laser-guided bombs that obliterate enemy refuges identified by scouts who penetrate militant ranks. Even bombing raids appear to strengthen the fundamentalists, who blame the Americans for what they claim are scores of civilian deaths.

U.S. efforts to build a government structure around former Baath Party stalwarts — officials of Saddam Hussein's army, police force and bureaucracy who were willing to work with the United States — have collapsed. Instead, the former Saddam loyalists, under threat of beheadings, kidnappings and humiliation, have mostly resigned or defected to the fundamentalists, or been killed.

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002019066_anbar29.html

HE'LL BE DOWN TO JUST THE OIL FIELDS SOON--BUT NOT BE ABLE TO PUMP ANY OF IT OUT. BUSH WILL NEED THE DRAFT IN '05 TO TAKE BACK IRAQ HIS WAY, THE HARD WAY!

[EnfantTerrible]

1. Next thing you know

they won't be calling it a war... police action is my bet. Deja Vu?

[mzmolly]

2. Good stuff.

:hi:

[mzmolly]

3. Or .. "The War On Terror is only un-winable with Bush as our pResident"

;)

[sangh0]

4. Good point

I'll make sure to remember this one. Thanks