Bush passes the buck - Boston Globe editorial

[Submariner]

We need to keep hammering home that point; Bush passes the buck which labels the coward that he is. All the Troops that are killed or injured from this day forward until Jan 20, 2009 will have died for the sake of the forever-tarnished legacy of a world class LOSER.

Globe Editorial
Bush passes the buck

September 15, 2007

IN HIS SPEECH to the nation Thursday night, President Bush said America's engagement in Iraq will extend "beyond my presidency." Whatever the value of his candor, Bush was warning Republicans and Democrats alike that the calamities he has wrought in Iraq will have to be overcome by his successor.

In the national interest, presidential candidates of both parties should ask Bush not to slough off his responsibility for cutting US losses in Iraq. Bush's refusal to face up to Iraqi realities now will make the next commander in chief's task of ending the war much harder.

Bush's prescription for the next 16 months was more of the same. He asserted that perpetuating current tactics in Iraq would help "contain Iran." What he failed to mention was that his policies have broken the containment of Iran - and, in Iraq, brought to power Shi'ite factions under the tutelage of Tehran.

By the same token, Bush's post invasion policy called for purging nearly all Sunni Arabs who had belonged to the Ba'ath Party from military, security, and civil service positions. This opened the way for the Sunni insurgency, the implantation of Al Qaeda in Iraq, and the current sectarian civil war.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2007/09/15/bush_passes_the_buck/

[Maribelle]

1. A fine editorial, but ....

What lacks in MSM today is an evaluation of what this war has always been about, and why it will continue with the corrupt neocons until that real mission is accomplished.

And in between Bush's lies and his endless "in you face Americans" hubris puff ups, once and a while he really does sneak in the truth - - that Iraq oil must be in total control. "Can't let the enemy get the energy" kind of stuff. Hunt Oil is a good example of why Bush remains in Iraq, of what Bush's prescription for the next 16 months is all about. Mixing American blood with oil makes Bush feel good as he wends his way along the path of his true mission.

How I wish the MSM would simply give him the finger and stop trying to make sense of his nonsense.

And in the end, when this tragic nightmare is over, I hope that hell is made up of hot boiling oil - for Bush and Cheney.

[rodeodance]

2. I read that Hunt Oil are big contributors to the Bushies.

[Maribelle]

3. Hunt Oil equals Bush cronyism at its lowest

Oil Over but the Shoutin'

http://www.slate.com/id/2174011/

Kyle E. Moore at lefty blog Comments From Left Field says the not-so-invisible hand of U.S. privatization is behind the stalled legislation: "In truth, this is a classic example of setting the Iraqis up for failure. At a time when political reconciliation is absolutely, positively the single most important thing in regards to fixing Iraq, we are balancing that reconciliation on a highly divisive bill that undermines our own position by tipping our hand on 'why we're really there.' "

http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2007/09/what-progress-looks-like-iraq-oil-law-on-cusp-of-failure-again


Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo sees cronyism leading all the way back to Texas: "The story though connects up with another one … the decision of the Kurdistan regional government to sign an oil exploration deal with Dallas-based Hunt Oil, run by Mr. Ray L. Hunt. …emember, Hunt, ... is also a pal of the president's. Indeed, President Bush has twice appointed Hunt to his Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. So while the president is striving to get the Iraqis to meet these benchmarks one of his own pals -- and more importantly, political appointees -- is busy helping to tear the whole thing apart."


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/053047.php