Our Troops Have Not Failed: Bush and Cheney Have Failed Our Troops

[babylonsister]

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorials/146

Our Troops Have Not Failed: Bush and Cheney Have Failed Our Troops
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 7:02am. Editorials

A BuzzFlash Editorial

In today’s BuzzFlash interview with author Larry Beinhart (who wrote the book that the movie "Wag the Dog" was based on), he astutely comments on Bush and Cheney gambling with lives in Iraq as if GIs were poker chips:

The Bush-Cheney situation right now is like this: They've gone to Vegas. Their stake was $200,000. They're down $300,000. If they get up and they leave the table, everyone knows they went to Vegas, lost their shirt, plus some more. If they stay there and keep betting, one of two things is going to happen. Either a miracle is going to occur, and somehow they'll suddenly win the war, or there will be a new election and they will be magically whisked away from their seats. Somebody else will be sitting there and become responsible for the losses.

When you have no one in your extended families in the military – or even relatives of your elitist group of rulers – it’s easy to bet with the lives of others, easy to double down. It’s like a mayor going to Vegas with the town’s tax collections. He’s got none of his dollars at risk. (That’s the problem of having a government composed primarily of AWOL from combat monarchists. At least in England, the royal progeny serve in the military.)

We have been reviewing some video clips of Bush’s statements on the Iraq war since the infamous "Mission Accomplished" moment -- not to mention Cheney’s "last throes of the insurgency" claims and the like -- and this documented evidence only confirms that our soldiers have been betrayed by hustlers. Bush and Cheney don’t support our troops; they sacrifice them for their own vainglory, because being perceived as "losing" in the culture of hyper-masculinity – this "victory culture" -- is more than they can handle.

So, though Bush stated in his infamous "Mission Accomplished" declaration in 2003, "Major combat operations have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country," more than four years later major combat operations have never ceased.

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[Madspirit]

1. 1st k&r...n/t

[Briar]

2. Now

where have I heard that before. Oh yes, the Germans blaming the politicians after Armistice Day, 1918. Idolising the military is a very dangerous sign. However bad the politicians.

[babylonsister]

3. I didn't take this to mean idolizing the military, but how about some

plain human respect? I don't see that the military is getting much of that, thanks to their leaders.