Bush and Courage

I can respect a man who makes a mistake and owns up to it. We have all made mistakes. Shit happens and spoils the best laid plans of many. But it is a sniveling coward who perpetuates mistakes that cost men's lives and countless billions of dollars that could be used to better the lives of living Americans by continuing on a path that is doomed to failure and was the wrong path to take to begin with.

Every indicator shows that we should not have gotten into the Iraq war from jump street. The reasons deliberately advanced for that action were bogus. The strategy for concluding that action was non existent. The government now in place was hand-picked by us and lacks the will, integrity or ability to control spiraling civil war that has resulted from the vacuum created by the capture by us and trial of Saddam Hussein for actions that did not violate Iraqi law when they were committed. Can you say ex post facto? American lives are still being squandered in a plan hastily conceived in the panic of 9/11. The whole thing is a mess.

Now despite being told by his most senior advisers and every committee ever created on the Iraq situation that we should get our hat and split, (for the uninitiated that means leave, vamoose, amscray) Bush throws the onus of withdrawal on the current puppet regime with the simple phrase : We will stay in Iraq until the "job" is done and until the people of Iraq no longer want us to remain". That is a shameless display of lack of courage. He has a tiger by the tail and lacks the will and courage to let go and withdraw.

Our presence, in the first place is really a result of Eurogenia; see my earlier Blog about whites' irresistible urge to control the lives of Black and Brown people. Bush should take a cue from Lindon Johnson. LBJ inherited a quagmire in Vietnam, by the way a war that was also started on a bogus premise (a fabricated story of an attack on an American ship in the Tonkin Gulf). It was obvious to him that there was no graceful way out, and he had the courage to admit that he did not have a solution and withdrew from public office rather than be responsible for wasting any more American lives. That took courage.

Bush should have the courage to admit that the Iraq civil war will only get worse if we stay and that he was wrong and order withdrawal. It is no longer our fight, if it ever was.