The US has suffered a horrible defeat in Iraq.

There is nothing that can be done.

The US simply failed to take into account the numerous factions of Shiite fundamentalists who were actively trying to depose Saddam Hussein during the twenty plus years prior to the invasion.

The Al Dawa, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution of Iraq, and Muqtada Al Sadr are now in charge.

The US needs to stop spilling of oceans of blood and treasure for the sake of the Al Dawa, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution of Iraq, and Muqtada Al Sadr.

So Washington froze his ass off in Valley Forge.

What actual discomfort from the war in Iraq, or any other war for that matter, has Bush directly experienced?

Bad comparison.

You just pointed out what a puss Bush is in comparison to Washington.

ROTFLAMOL

Why continue spilling blood and treasure for a Islamic fundamentalist republic?

By all accounts, Al Dawa, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution of Iraq (sic!!), and Muqtada al-Sadr are pro-Hezbollah, pro-Iranian, pro-Islamic fundamentalism, anti-Western, anti-Israel.

During the twenty plus years prior to the deposing of Saddam Hussein, Al Dawa and the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution of Iraq tried to depose Saddam Hussein and transform Iraq into a Shiite fundamentalist republic.

Al Dawa, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution of Iraq (sic!!), and Muqtada al-Sadr are not and never will be an ally of the USA.

Why should more oceans of blood and treasure be spilled for Al Dawa, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution of Iraq (sic!!), and Muqtada al-Sadr ?

SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD HAASS
“Iraq Is Not Winnable”
What happens next in the Middle East? SPIEGEL spoke to Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, to find out. A widely respected foreign policy expert, Haass warns that the Middle East could become dangerous for years to come.

The New Middle East
Richard N. Haass
From Foreign Affairs, November/December 2006
Summary: The age of U.S. dominance in the Middle East has ended and a new era in the modern history of the region has begun. It will be shaped by new actors and new forces competing for influence, and to master it, Washington will have to rely more on diplomacy than on military might.

Iraq: Bush’s Islamic Republic
By Peter W. Galbraith
SCIRI and Dawa want Iraq to be an Islamic state. They propose to make Islam the principal source of law, which most immediately would affect the status of women. For Muslim women, religious law—rather than Iraq’s relatively progressive civil code—would govern personal status, including matters relating to marriage, divorce, property, and child custody. A Dawa draft for the Iraqi constitution would limit religious freedom for non-Muslims, and apparently deny such freedom altogether to peoples not “of the book,” such as the Yezidis (a significant minority in Kurdistan), Zoroastrians, and Bahais.

This program is not just theoretical. Since Saddam’s fall, Shiite religious parties have had de facto control over Iraq’s southern cities. There Iranian-style religious police enforce a conservative Islamic code, including dress codes and bans on alcohol and other non-Islamic behavior. In most cases, the religious authorities govern—and legislate—without authority from Baghdad, and certainly without any reference to the freedoms incorporated in Iraq’s American-written interim constitution—the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL).

The Iranian nightmare
By Michael Schwartz
Now, over two years after Baghdad fell and the American occupation of Iraq began, Kagan’s prediction appears to have been fulfilled – in reverse. The chief beneficiary of the occupation and the chaos it produced has not been the Bush administration, but Iran, the most populous and powerful member of the “axis of evil” and the chief American competitor for dominance in the oil-rich region. As diplomatic historian Gabriel Kolko commented, “By destroying a united Iraq under [Saddam] Hussein … the US removed the main barrier to Iran’s eventual triumph.”

“Washington and his men spent the bitterly cold winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge. Washington’s steadfastness to the American cause and his closeness to his troops held the army together, even while some of the leaders of Congress were wondering whether he should be replaced. ”

Although you can say it would be detrimental to stay the course in Iraq, image the consequences if the Congress had quit on Washington in 1778. Sometimes, it is simply a matter of will.

After all I have paid more for my Ford Focus ZX3 than my dad did for his first house. So are we comparing apples to oranges with those numbers or are they adjusted for inflation to make the comparison relevant?

Just sayin’

You seem to like words that begin with “I”

Investigation

Impeachment

Incarceration

Impounding

The public discourse about not the STAYING THE COURSE is good.

Okay, you like words that begin with “I.” Here’s one!

The public discourse about the staying the INTERCOURSE sounds good, too.

Staying the course? No!

Staying the intercourse? Yes! Now, that’s a plan we can all back.

Bush is flubbing up his words, again. Can’t he get anything right? STAYING THE INTERCOURSE is the right course of action.

John

But that’s not all.

The invasion of Iraq was also undertaken for the sake of those in the defense industries which overwhelmingly give more cash to the GOP.

Defense Aerospace: Dems 41% Repubs 58%
Defense Electronics: Dems 40% Repubs 60%
Misc Defense: Dems 34% Repubs 65%

Those in defense suck ferociously on the teats of the US govt from the one side of their mouth and on the other whine endlessly about the biggness of the US govt from the other.

Fucting hypocrits!!!

http://www.getsomejosh.com

Here’s the real story. George W. Bush, and half of the Bush administrations’ propensity to pee in bed has governmental accountants scrambling to creatively deceive the American people. What are these accountants supposed to do? You know– every expenditure must be listed in the annual budget.

Here’s a sampling of current White House expenses:

1. Bibles——————–$8,000,000

2. State Dinners———–$10,000,000

3. Salaries——————50,000,000

4. Rose Garden expenses—3,000,000

5. Gay escorts———— 25,000,000

6. BED SHEETS————-438,000,000

White House accountants are smart. They know they can’t list bed sheet expenditures. Heck no!

The military establishment is fully aware that homosexuals are bedwetters ( Please read today’s article ). Plus, gay escorts can mess bed sheets up something fierce. That would be a red flag. You know–half of the Bush adminstration is gay. OMG! OMG! OMG! Darn, you could have fooled me. So what do the accountants do?

They just move the current 438 million bed sheet expense to the ever-escalating Iraq War costs. Smart accounting trick! How clever? The books are cooked. Yeah, the books are cooked all right.

Well, now you know. You didn’t know that Rumsfeld was history before the election. Well, now you know. You didn’t know why the Iraq War was so expensive. Well, now you know.

Think bed sheets! Think bed sheets! Think bed sheets

So you think the above story is silly and far-fetched. Ha! Ha! Bush is the real joke. He’s a joker–a bed wetting joker.

John

“Investigation

Incarceration”

Big papa is right.

Comment by paul

I agree. The Iraqis never attacked the U.S. on American soil either. So when are the BushCo friends in Saudi Arabia going to answer for 911?