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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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.

Still believe the spin that there's a "hopeful future" in Iraq if we "stay the course"? Here are some recent items from the news.

-- Thousands of Iraqis are believed to have died from shortages of medicine, vital equipment and qualified doctors, despite an infusion of nearly half a billion dollars from U.S. coffers into this country's healthcare system, Iraqi officials and American observers say.

-- Exacerbating the crisis, hundreds of doctors have been killed, and thousands have fled Iraq. The child mortality rate, a key indicator of a nation's health, has worsened since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to Iraqi government figures.

-- More than 250 academics have been killed since 2003, targeted by so many warring factions that it seems to be the only issue they can agree on. To date, not one person has been arrested for these murders. Fanatics targeting Iraqi academics are wreaking havoc on the educational system by threatening, kidnapping and killing innocent professors.

-- The Iraqi insurgency is now self-sustaining financially, profiting from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, corrupt charities and other crimes that neither the Iraqi government nor the U.S. have been unable to prevent.

[Crankie Avalon]

1. I guess they think the status quo can go on for another two years and that it'll...

...then become some other administration's problem.

[niceypoo]

2. Have they ever admitted anything?

Don't hold your breath. Admitting the obvious would be admitting failure.

[rock]

3. So I guess you're saying

"Iraq Won't Improve"

[JABBS]

4. sadly no

if anything, iran will become the main regional influence. that's the exact opposite of what the bushies hoped for.

[leftchick]

5. He needs to quit calling anti-occupation Iraqis "Terrists"

and quit calling Iraq "The central front in the "WaronTerra" It is all BS.

[JABBS]

6. bush is trying to put band-aids on amputations

the spin is that getting rid of rumsfeld means he gets it.

but actions (on the ground in iraq) speak louder than words (spin from the administration)

[katsy]

7. bush will never recognize the reality unless...

his ass is shipped to downtown Baghdad.

Even then, he'd lie. That's his legacy. Lies.