Cynthia Tucker: Administration Still In Deep Denial
"How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" -- John Kerry, 1971
Apparently, the state of denial at the White House is worse than I thought.
In a speech Thursday to the annual convention of the American Legion, President Bush declared that, if the U.S. withdraws from Iraq, "we will face the terrorists in the streets of our own cities. So the United States will not leave until victory is achieved."
He didn't say what "victory" in Iraq will look like. Given that most of the Iraqi deaths over the past several months have been the result of sectarian conflict, would "victory" require U.S. troops to intervene in a civil war? Nor did the president say how the Iraqi enterprise prevents terrorist plots such as the recently disrupted plan to blow up airliners.
Read the rest at Yahoo News
Apparently, the state of denial at the White House is worse than I thought.
In a speech Thursday to the annual convention of the American Legion, President Bush declared that, if the U.S. withdraws from Iraq, "we will face the terrorists in the streets of our own cities. So the United States will not leave until victory is achieved."
He didn't say what "victory" in Iraq will look like. Given that most of the Iraqi deaths over the past several months have been the result of sectarian conflict, would "victory" require U.S. troops to intervene in a civil war? Nor did the president say how the Iraqi enterprise prevents terrorist plots such as the recently disrupted plan to blow up airliners.
Read the rest at Yahoo News
posted by iraqnam at 7:48 PM
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