Bush's legacy: Biggest International debacle

[StClone]

LA Weekly

Worse Than Vietnam


Bush wages a war for future presidents to end

By MARC COOPER

Long after the history books have consigned George W. Bush to the category of barely remembered failed presidencies, the aftershocks of his policies will still be rattling America.

For the moment, he continues to view the Iraqi debacle like an autistic child staring blankly through an iced-up window. None of the complex and perilous realities he has created seem to penetrate his discourse. We’re now up to 2,300 American deaths and more than 17,000 wounded. Iraqi casualties are much higher, and uncounted. Yes, there have been elections, but there is no functioning Iraqi government. We have, we are told, “stood up” the beginning of an Iraqi fighting force, only to learn that its first high-profile campaign last week was mostly a phantom exercise. Meanwhile, the Iraqi security forces have turned out to be the same as the Shiite death squads. What rump regime there is in Baghdad is unduly influenced by the mullahs in Iran. For this, we have thrown our children into the meat grinder? To liberate the Iraqis from Saddam Hussein and replace him with self-flagellating, Iranian-backed religious zealots?

http://www.laweekly.com/dissonance/12955/worse-than-vietnam/

[opihimoimoi]

1. He has set the Bar at an ALL TIME LOW....something barely imagineable

only 6 years ago.....

[Bluebear]

2. "like an autistic child staring blankly through an iced-up window"

Descriptive!