NY Times Editorial: "Mr. Bush Alone" - Reality in Iraq

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Editorial
Mr. Bush Alone

Published: May 11, 2007
The difference between mainstream hawks and mainstream doves on Iraq seems to have boiled down to two months, with House Democrats now demanding visible progress by July while moderate Republicans are willing to give White House policies until September, but no longer, to show results.

Then there is President Bush, who has yet to acknowledge the reality that Congressional Republicans and even administration officials like Defense Secretary Robert Gates now seem to tacitly accept. Three months into Mr. Bush’s troop escalation, there is no real security in Baghdad and no measurable progress toward reconciliation, while American public support for this folly has all but run out.

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As one participant, Representative Ray Lahood of Illinois, remarked later, “I don’t know if he’s gotten that kind of opinion before in such a frank and no-holds-barred way.” The session was all the more significant considering that less than two weeks had passed since the same Republican moderates voted to sustain Mr. Bush’s veto of a bill that set a March 2008 date for withdrawing American combat troops.

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The American people are no longer willing to write blank checks of blood and treasure to an Iraqi government that has refused to stop rampaging Shiite militias, has failed to approve constitutional changes to bring estranged Sunni Arabs back into the political system, and has still not come up with a way to share oil revenues fairly. Now it wants to give itself a two-month summer vacation. Mr. Bush needs to face up to this grim reality and abandon his fantasies of ultimate victory and vindication. Otherwise, he could find himself, and America’s best long-term interests, run over by a bipartisan rush toward the nearest exit.

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[MannyGoldstein]

1. Impeachment Train A-Comin'

That light at the end of the tunnel that The Chimperor sees? It's the headlight from the impeachment train a-comin'.

The Rethuglicans will soon grow weary of this, and can his ass.

[senseandsensibility]

2. It's not unltimate victory and vindication that chimp

and his pals are after. They're after money for themselves and their cronies.

[illinoisprogressive]

3. This is part of the fault of the gop who would not say anything to Bush before

[The Magistrate]

4. As They Say, Sir

"It's always darkest just before it goes completely black."

[Monk06]

5. Ya know I miss Nixon. I cried when he died.. He was the last crook with the ...

honesty to record his own crimes on tape.

[Amonester]

6. Bu$che's got his long litany of crimes recorded in (illegally deleted) emails.

There must be "hidden" backups "hidden" somewhere on a few NSA Agent Mike's servers, though...