bush the Idiot Explains Why There has Been So Much Death in Iraq

[leftchick]

http://www.forbes.com/business/energy/feeds/ap/2006/10/20/ap3107881.html

President Bush acknowledged Friday that the situation in Iraq was tough and said he would consult with American generals to see if a change in tactics was necessary to combat the escalating violence.

Seventy-four American troops have died in Iraq in October, likely to become the deadliest month for U.S. forces in nearly two years.

"One of the reasons you're seeing more casualties is the enemy is active and so are our troops," Bush said in a brief interview with The Associated Press.

[Duer 157099]

1. Huh. I'd have expected him to say something like:

"You're seeing more casualties because people are getting killed."

[Drum]

2. "if"...IF???

"...to see if a change in tactics was necessary..."

x(

[Phredicles]

3. On par with a profound observation by Calvin Coolidge:

"When large numbers of people are thrown out of work, unemployment results."

It takes an uncommon mind to come up with this stuff, no question. :eyes:

[radfringe]

9. an oldie but goodie from the mouth of bush

"I know it's a budget, it's got alotta numbers on it"

[Quantess]

4. it's the suiciders.

:dunce:

[Oreo]

5. I don't think anybody anticipated...

that the enemy would be active

What a fucking moran

[spanone]

6. He never ceases to amaze me. Just when I think he can't out-dumb himself..

He over out-dumbs himself.

[rock]

12. Yep, he's re-over out-dumbed himself

[StClone]

7. Why doesn't Bush just say

"I sent people to die and kill people in the process. That's my job."

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Never mind. It's just the "last throes" of the "failed insurgency".

Just wave the flag, sing "God Bless America", and dig the graves.

[MrCoffee]

10. the enemy is active? who'da thunk it?

[bigtree]

11. "we're on the move"

"kinetic action"

[kenny blankenship]

13. This is a backhanded, unintended acknowledgement from Bush

that, just as the insurgency may ramp up their attacks to have a political message-sending effect for our elections, for months Preznit Bush has instructed the US military to keep a lower profile in Iraq FOR EXACTLY THE SAME POLITICAL REASONS--to keep casualties down so voters will ignore Iraq. "Ignore Iraq!" is no less a political message directed at our voters than the message Bush accuses the insurgency of sending. While it might be nice for Mr. Bush and other Republicans if our troops avoided contact and the voters weren't forced to think about Iraq, meanwhile we aren't and weren't gaining control of the country; day by day as we keep our heads down it slips away! We've just been avoiding enemy contact so that we can stay a little longer. When the situation finally becomes so precarious that the military must engage, as in the attempt this month to prevent Baghdad from collapsing and taking the gov't down with it, we start to see 100+ GIs dead in a month--a "Vietnam" rate of casualties.

So, if we ever exert ourselves in Iraq we get unacceptable casualties and want to go home. We can't bring stability or democracy to Iraq by keeping our heads down, but we refuse to take the medicine needed to impose even mimimal control over Iraq--and it's not clear that the other goals would then materialize even if we did. So...why the hell are we still there?

While it's true that the shifting tactic of the US military is reasonable and understandable, it should be obvious to anyone that the military mission in Iraq is A FAILURE, since it has to be politically shielded and hamstrung in this way. Three years into our supposed "Victory" in Iraq we still do not control the country militarily nor do we control its political direction. Keeping away from the enemy in order to lower your casualty rate in an occupation isn't a strategy for winning, it's a slow-bleed losing strategy. Our (Bush's) political objectives in Iraq are patently UNATTAINABLE, even he is giving up on them. Beyond that, the military objective of dominating the Persian Gulf region with a permanent ground force presence being hosted by a brutally repressive, religiously intolerant regime in Baghdad (which, friends, is what's coming next following on the official abandonment of the democratizing project) is a goal that no American should support, whether voting citizen or government official, unless they want to be a Nazi imperialist warcriminal.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. What?

Gee Thanks, Captain Obvious!

What a stupid comment! Yeah, like i should have expected something else.
The Professor

[Blackhatjack]

15. People Who Get Shot Or Blowed Up Tend To Die...They Need to Stop

....Doing THat!

"At least that is my theory. See...If they quit shooting and blowing us up, we don't have to kill as many of them....uh, uh, then....we can get this regime change over with, and everybody will be so happy." -Bush