Iraq Won't Improve Unless Bush Stops Spinning; Starts Recognizing Reality On The Ground

[JABBS]

Click here to read an analysis of what's really happening in Iraq -- and what the Bush Administration won't admit to.

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This has nothing to do with exit strateiges. It's catch-phrase partisan politics to turn every conversation into whether the Democrats want to "cut and run," or whether the Republicans have a better understanding of whether U.S. troops begin redeploying now, a year from now, or three years from now. The American people made it clear at the polls this month: they aren't buying the spin anymore.

What's most important is the administration recognizing, understanding, and admitting that there is a steady and possibly unending drumbeat of death and destruction in Iraq, and that Iraq's Shiites and Sunnis are engaged in Civil War. It has to do with the realization and admission that without rapid change, the vacuum of leadership that is being created by the U.S.-led coalition will push the Iraqis to turn to the all too willing arms of Iran.

[Christa]

1. I don't see Iraq improving in the forseeable future, at all.

[JABBS]

2. that may be

but it certainly won't improve by trying to convince the U.S. that things will magically turn around by themselves -- by "staying the course" and not listening to "cut and run" liberals who want to "embolden" the terrorists, and all that B.S.

[Christa]

3. agree 100%

[calimary]

4. Thank goodness at least a few in our media have stopped spinning.

At least this far.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2990334

[JABBS]

6. good point

it took a while, but apparently we can all agree that two factions that try to kill each other within a single country qualifies as a civil war.

sadly, president bush won't use the term.

[Doctor_J]

5. They create their own reality

Bush hasn't confronted reality since his sister died 50 years ago. In his own mind he is a war hero, self-made millionaire, statesman, and liberator or the Iraqis. He will never recognize reality because his sycophants in the media and in the WH won't tell him what it is.