Bush, Rats & a Sinking Ship

[ProSense]

Or there were supposed to be flowers:

Bush, Rats & a Sinking Ship

By Robert Parry
February 25, 2006

In just this past week, conservative legend William F. Buckley Jr. and neoconservative icon Francis Fukuyama have joined the swelling ranks of Americans judging George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq a disaster.

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“Within their own counsels, different plans have to be made,” Buckley wrote after a week of bloody sectarian violence in Iraq. “And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.”

Fukuyama, a leading neoconservative theorist, went further citing not just the disaster in Iraq but the catastrophe enveloping Bush’s broader strategy of preemptive military American interventions, waged unilaterally when necessary.

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“Successful preemption depends on the ability to predict the future accurately and on good intelligence, which was not forthcoming, while America’s perceived unilateralism has isolated it as never before,” Fukuyama wrote.

more...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/022506.html

[iconoclastic cat]

1. Favorite part:

Now, Bush must decide what to do – admit mistakes and heed the advice of critics – or circle the wagons even tighter and lash out at the growing majority of Americans who think the war in Iraq was a deadly mistake.

Gee, I wonder which they'll do?

Karl (on the phone):"You son of a fucking bitch! If you don't support this deal, we won't support your campaign this fall!"

Soon it will be hard to hear any Republicans over the chewing...

[Capn Sunshine]

2. Yet...

The National Democratic Party seems unable to capitalize off this, perhaps because they backed Bush out of fear for looking weak on terrorism, in direct opposition to the mainstream of the party.

Funny box the DC Dems built themselves on the Iraq quagmire; it has no exit strategy either. Maybe my friends from Kansas are right and the Democratic party IS dead.....

[lyonn]

4. There are Dems that are telling it like it is, but

the Media doesn't give it real air time. Only the comedians get it lound and clear. Robert Parry has an article on this issue also.

Some of the outspoken Dems are Slaughter, Finegold, Gore, Boxer, and quite a few more, their voices are barely heard.

Until the Dems shout en mass those few loud Dems are going to be buried in the news about ALL the repubs that are upset with bush. Ugh

[Capn Sunshine]

5. That's an issue all right

we have to prosecute this fight WITHOUT the media.

That's so uphill, that down is still above us.

[BootinUp]

6. Your take on this is a mystery to me

Democrats are stronger now in public perception than they have been in years. There are some who played a different game along the lines you suggest, they are now out of office, people like Max Cleland. The public did get behind the war effort thats the only mainstream thinking worth noting.

The only box the Dems have been in is the one the public has put them in by continuing to support the fuhrer, admit it to yourself and you'll sleep better.

[lyonn]

3. Hey, Robert Parry on Consortium News is on a roll!

Another article by him:

Detention Centers

"Plus, there was that curious development in January when the Army Corps of Engineers awarded Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root a $385 million contract to construct detention centers somewhere in the United States, to deal with “an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs,” KBR said.

Later, the New York Times reported that “KBR would build the centers for the Homeland Security Department for an unexpected influx of immigrants, to house people in the event of a natural disaster or for new programs that require additional detention space.”

(snip)

"The Pentagon plan also includes a strategy for taking over the Internet and controlling the flow of information, viewing the Web as a potential military adversary. The “roadmap” speaks of “fighting the net,” and implies that the Internet is the equivalent of “an enemy weapons system.” (Gulp, "fighting the net"??)

Robert Parry's first 3 or 4 stories are killers. I kept cutting and pasting until it got ridiculous. His site is on target more than usual.
One gets scared reading them, boy are we in deep do do.