The Convenient Lie

We continue to follow the policy moves of the Bush administration in Iraq.

We learned that following shock and awe that there was no real plan for getting Iraq back into the functioning semblance of a country. There was no plan for how to deal with the Iraq military except to fire them all, all the Iraqi troops, and consequently create the insurgency.

The blunders in handling Iraq are politely called mismanagement problems. Bush always gets the benefit of the doubt in spite of the continuous string of failures that he has produced. This is the role of the main stream media. Bush lost all credibility when weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq, supposedly the reason for going into Iraq in the first place.

Those who support the war fall into three categories.

The first group are those that watch Fox News and refuse to be challenged by anything that conflicts with a presumed outcome. If these people watched no news they would be better informed.

The second group are the neo-cons. A few neo-cons have jumped ship. These people were the main reason why the whole mess began. The neo-cons created then forced this policy onto the country.

The third group of Iraq war supporters are the partisan Republican politicians who would support Bush no matter what he did or does. Loyalty is the hall mark of the Republican Party. When does the entire health and welfare of a nation override the loyalties of the Republican?

Those who want the US out of Iraq are virtually the entire world population; the majority of the American people, the majority of the Iraqis themselves, and the majority of the remaining world population.

So many convenient lies have been told by the Bush administration surrounding this war that the sickle needed to cut down those weeds is massive. Al Qaeda entered Iraq after Shock and Awe, they represent less than 10% of the insurgency, yet Bush has no trouble bringing this up as if it were the entire matter and consistently links this to 9-11.

The lie that Saddam was responsible for 9-11 continues to be trumpeted by the White House and its subordinate news outlets particularly Fox News.

By all accounts the surge has not helped anything. There is no remaining centralized government in Iraq. It is a sham. In this light what is victory? Bush cannot say what victory is, yet the term is bandied about as if his Iraq blunder was Europe during World War II.

Iraq will disassemble into a group of provinces, separated by religious affiliation. There will not be a centralized government in any near or distant near future. American troops will continue to die and be wounded in great numbers, and for what purpose?