Bush's Way Backward

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President Bush used an unintentionally apt phrase in his press conference Wednesday to describe what he calls his shift of tactics in Iraq. It is the same phrase the Ford Motor Company has used in its so-far unsuccessful campaign to come out of its corporate death spiral: the “way forward.” Bush's way forward in Iraq, however, is amped-up smoke and mirrors and fake, Democratic straw men for suffering Republican candidates on the campaign trail.

Bush said he was working with the Iraqi government to set “benchmarks … that show a way forward to the Iraqi people—and the American people, for that matter—about how this unity government is going to solve problems and bring the people together.” Bush used the phrase “way forward” several times in the speech, such as in his statement that that in Iraq, “Our job is to prevent the full – full-scale civil war from happening in the first place. It's one of the missions, is to work with the Maliki government to make sure that there is a political way forward that says to the people of Iraq, It's not worth it. Civil war is not worth the effort – by them.”

Bush’s press conference comes the same week that Ford announced that it had lost $5.8 billion in the third quarter of the year, a sign that its plan to retool its operations and return to profitability, called “The Way Forward,” was floundering.

The Republican Party is hemorrhaging credibility over the Iraq issue as Ford is hemorrhaging money, so President Bush turned on the Texas tough talk. He said early in his address that every success of the enemy should not lead to “calls for an investigation or a reason for our troops to come home,” and when he added that “we must not fall prey to the sophisticated propaganda of the enemy,” a listener could imagine him talking about Democrats, not an overseas terrorist group.

He cannot, and the American people should have seen his inability to back up his words on live television . . . more . . .

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/10/25/bushs_way_backward.php


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[shain from kane]

1. Iraq is Bush's Edsel. They rolled out the wrong product.