Bush has a plan, and it's working--and its working like a charm (chaos)

[rodeodance]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HK03Ak01.html

Iraq: Bush has a plan, and it's working

"If you listen carefully for a Democrat plan for success, they don't have one. Iraq is the central front in the war on terror, yet they don't have a plan ..."
- US President George W Bush, campaigning for Republicans in next week's congressional elections.

So, does the Bush administration have a plan for Iraq, and if so, is it working? The answer to both questions could well be "yes". But it's not a plan that Bush could publicly boast about, despite the
fact that it's working like a charm.

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Asia Times Online columnist Spengler has pointed out that chaos is probably the best option for the Bush administration, not only in Iraq but in the region (see How I learned to stop worrying and love chaos, March 14, 2006, and Mistah Kurtz, he clueless, May 11, 2004). Mark LeVine writes (The chaos theory in action, April 6, 2004): "It is chaos that makes this whole system possible. Without the chaos, Iraqis would not allow the country to be sold off wholesale, or allow the US troops to remain after the June 30 'transfer' of sovereignty."

A strategy of fomenting chaos makes perfect sense in a twisted sort of way: a stable, autonomous Iraq means oil will be pumped, bringing down international crude prices, and that's the last thing the Bush administration's backers want.

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[SammyWinstonJack]

1. ..

:grr:

[Freedom_from_Chains]

2. That has always been my take on it

Chaos is the underlying formula of their whole plan and I think we will get an opportunity to see another stage of it in action this Tuesday.

[izzie]

3. And who voted for him? Just about a little over 50 percent.

That vote that is. And I fear that they do not read what you read. Many will still vote for Bush's people. I fear this Tue. I do not see the voters going the other way. The history seems to just eat at the edge in thinking. If we have ate at the edge enough to get the GOP out of power in the House I will feel we have moved on.

[slaveplanet]

4. Oh... I don't know

"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the — the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Oct. 27, 2003

"Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 25, 2003

"My answer is bring them on."—On Iraqi insurgents attacking U.S. forces, George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 3, 2003

"I'm the master of low expectations." —George W. Bush, aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003

"You're free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it'll take time to restore chaos and order — order out of chaos. But we will." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 13, 2003


I'd say he'a actually been pretty up front about the plan...