Is Bush sneaking in to Baghdad June 30th - Guardian speculates?

[RamboLiberal]

Duck and cover-here comes the plastic turkey.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4956171-103550,00.html

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By any wider scale of measurement Bush's Baghdad visit will only serve to highlight the failures of his overall Iraq strategy. Instead of enjoying peace and prosperity, Iraq is in a state of war.

The Bush visit has not been announced, and may yet be cancelled for security reasons, leaving Colin Powell, the secretary of state, or perhaps not even him, to come in the president's place. But like clues in a treasure hunt, telltale hints of the Bush/Rove plan are there for the finding.

First, the extraordinary coincidence that Bush will be attending a Nato summit in Istanbul on June 28 and 29, the eve of the sovereignty transfer in Iraq. From there it is barely 90 minutes' flight to Baghdad. When was this convenient date selected? Certainly some time after June last year, when Nato foreign ministers met in Madrid to plan the alliance's next summit. At that stage, according to the Nato website, the summit was to be held in May 2004.

[DemonFighterLives]

1. Probably need to send a low level operative

With the problems going on there, it seems that everyone has a target on their back.
:nuke:

[SoDesuKa]

3. Send Cheney to the Closing

And if everything doesn't go well, Cheney can tell them to fuck themselves.

[LibDemAlways]

2. After today's events in Turkey and Iraq,

the chimp will be lucky to leave either one in one piece. He can't be a no-show in Turkey without looking like a total chickenshit, but Iraq would be a no-win. He'd never make it out of the airport, which would only reinforce what a miserable failure this entire fiasco has become.

[Erika]

4. Mission Accomplished Again!

Bush and his handlers disgust me immensely. He suffers such a total disconnect with American citizens or American military. I can see him scooping ice cream cones made out of plastic cones and plastic ice cream yelling "Mission Accomplished Yet Again" The GOP sheeple yell in total oblivion "Yes"!...

What do you get when you cross a sheep with a parrot? A republican. It never changes.

[AntiCoup2K4]

5. Maybe the PNAC'ers are planning to "martyr" Junior.

They just haven't told him.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Well, we still have a few months of the "elected in a '0 year" curse

Not that I buy it, but it looms there, in the distance, anyway.

[RummyTheDummy]

9. Could be

Or there could be some kind of "staged" incident.

[blackcat77]

6. No way -- it will be chaos that day. nt

[tritsofme]

7. Not if people are speculating.

nt