Bush's "Double or Nothing" for Victory

[gulliver]

Well, I thought Bush was going to hedge his bet by playing ball with the ISG and Dems, but it looks like I was wrong or premature. It looks like he may try to go "double or nothing." That would be like him.

The trouble with having a guy with nothing to lose in the Oval Office is that he has nothing to lose -- at least nothing he really cares about. What is it to Bush if a couple hundred more soldiers go to heaven? He says he sleeps fine with 3,000 dead on his conscience; he'll sleep fine with a lot more. And there's no point even mentioning an Iraqi casualty number. Iraqis are infinitesimal.

Bush and Rumsfeld's toady generals might give it one last surge. Their vision of victory must be leaving an elected Iraqi government in place that doesn't immediately crumble. Never mind that the Iraqi government will be closely aligned with Iran and too weak to do anything about Al Qaeda's new base in Iraq. I hear they are thinking of calling the new Iraqi Al Qaeda "Bush Qaeda" in honor of their founder.

Best case, by 2008 there will be a "democratically elected government" where once a dangerous, recently hanged, Hitler-like tyrant ruled. "Vote GOP! That last surge did the trick! Enjoy the sweet smell of American victory! We're down to only 140,000 troops, a dramatic reduction from the 180,000 we had in 2007. The rest will begin to come home right after the election..."

Worst case, the GOP will just have the disaster they are already looking at.

[Vexatious Ape]

1. That's right.

He mentally shit-canned the ISG report the minute it his his desk. Bush is a lame duck who sleeps well despite all the blood on his hands. I think he has convinced himself that he'll be vindicated sometime in the long distant future and thats what helps him sleep.

[cassiepriam]

2. Corporate America always gambles with other people's lives and money.

Nothing new here. And they end up rich and happy.

We end up dead or broke.

[CJCRANE]

3. Yep, put some more troops in

so it takes even longer to get them out.

By then * will be living it up at his hacienda in Paraguay.

[HereSince1628]

4. They're doing nothing to cover his addicitive character by making direct

use of the language of gambling. And "double or nothing" is a classic prelude to "the bet too far."

But, why criticize him? Pelosi has taken doing anything to stop his reign of terror off the table.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Like a pathetic loser trying to hit big with just one more scratch ticket