Mon, 25 Sep 2006

Leaked intelligence report rocks Bush election stance

You know, if this wasn't a serious news item, and if we hadn't lost so many good boys in this insane war, I'd put this in my 'Humor' category as a "Study in Stupidity"...

I was skeptical about this war from the beginning - it seemed like a needless distraction from the hunt for the folks who flew airliners into buildings. My reservations would've vanished in a heartbeat if Saddam had been caught with nuclear/chemical/biological pants around his ankles - but he wasn't. And the planning for this fiasco had been nothing short of abominable.

The US military has effectively proved that it can overrun and conquer at will: the US administration has proved that it can barely run the government in Washington, much less anywhere else. We've gone from "Mission Accomplished" to "Mission Impossible" in a little over three years - and the parallels between our intervention in Vietnam and this war have grown over the same period.

I think everybody in DC is beginning to understand the term "quagmire" right about now: if we announce a firm date for our withdrawal, we insure a violent and bloody civil war with the probable outcome being an Iraq dominated by it's large Shite neighbor, who incidentally really is working furiously on nukes. If we don't, we insure many more American (and Iraqi) causalities, and tie up so many resources that we won't have the moxy to deal with the aforementioned large neighbor with nuclear ambitions.

It's a rock and a hard place, and there's no good way out. Thanks, Dubya!

AFP - US spy agencies have dropped a political bombshell six weeks before national elections, with the leak of a classified report concluding that the war in Iraq has spawned a new wave of Islamic radicalism and increased the global threat of terrorism.

(link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

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