This screams of their real motive: DESTABILIZATION IN IRAQ

[Jim Warren]

The first sentence in this article says it clearly. The DoS handed off to Rummy and the DoD. This has always been masked by the illusion of a bigger war on terror, rather than instilling the stabilizing factors of social criminal justice.

In the same way 9/11 was used as a launchpad for the war on terror rather than fully investigated for the horrendous crime it was.

AP: US BOTCHED TRAINING OF IRAQIS from the ISC

WASHINGTON - Training the police is as important to stabilizing Iraq as building an effective army there, but the United States has botched the job by assigning the wrong agencies to the task, two members of the Iraq Study Group said Wednesday.

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"If the administration had been serious and competent about establishing a functioning democracy in Iraq, it would have seen the need for a trustworthy criminal justice system in which all Iraqis could have confidence," Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070131/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq

[gasperc]

1. they are neither serious or competant

they don't understand the insurgency, why there is one, who the Sunni's are, who the SH'ia are, they are clueless.

Bush and Cheney simply feel like we did Iraq a favor by removing Saddam and our just reward is sucking every last drop of oil out of that country.

Our 60% dependence on foreign drives every fucking decision they make, if they can use a term like the war on terrorism to keep troops in Iraq they will. They could care less is there was an insurgency or it, as long as we keep a sizable military presence in Iraq. They sense the Saudi's not being a reliable source of oil should the kingdom fail, they see Iran as trying to dominate the region, they see goblins where they are not.
What there is in the middle east are oppresive regimes that are propped up by American policy because we have a humongous demand for oil.

[JackRiddler]

2. So far they have done exactly what they intended

To destroy the nation of Iraq and, failing the "flowers in the street" success (which they did not expect), to make sure Iraqis are killing each other, break up the country. If this ultimately fails and they don't get 14 bases and secure pipelines through a wasteland of sectarian killing, it won't be for a failure in trying or because they were "incompetent," but because the goal in the first place was the product of desperation.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Has this administration done anything without 'botching' it?

Edited to balace my quote marks