Ivins: Bush administration flip-flops again: Now it's everybody out of Ir

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http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Nov/11172003/commenta/111706.asp

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Now we are going to bug out before next year's election, Paul Bremer has been called in for an emergency confab, troops must be down to 105,000 by spring. The CIA, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, has sent a report from Baghdad saying the whole thing's going south. We are back to bombing Baghdad. Forget a constitution, we have to hand it all over to the Iraqis right away.

I am glad all this bug-out stuff is coming from the administration -- if some liberal said it, we would all be accused of treason.

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1. I love to be the first to catch an awesome new article for DU!!!!

[R Hickey]

2. I loved printing it to show to a GOP friend

And my cat loved watching my printer print it out. Now my cat is attacking me from below my keyboard, and I must attend to my own dirty little war...

[Myra]

4. Your cat does that too?

I haven't had a printout without claw marks in 3 years.

[realFedUp]

3. snip

I don't think the Bush administration lied to us about Iraq. It's worse than that. I think they fooled themselves. I think they were conned by Ahmad Chalabi. I think they indulged in wishful thinking to a point of near criminality. I think they decided anyone who didn't agree with them was an enemy, anti-American, disloyal. In other words, I think they are criminally stupid.
Since I keep trying to find helpful suggestions from any source, let's see if a fast political handover will help any. But there are already signs that the Iraqi Governing Council, which we appointed, is either in trouble or nonfunctional -- so why don't we try that bottom-up method of democratization I have been mentioning, with proportional representation for Sunnis, Kurds and Shiites mandatory as the elections move up. Anyone for grass-roots?