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Talk About A Cruel Joke
based on a report by Bob Herbert. October 3, 2005
It's finally becoming clear on Capitol Hill, and maybe even in the White House, that the United States cannot win the war in Iraq. The only question still to be decided is how many more American lives will be wasted in George W. Bush's grand debacle.
The wheels have fallen off the cart in Iraq, and only those in the farthest reaches of denial are hanging on to the illusion of an American triumph over the insurgency.
Air Force General Richard Myers, who retired Friday as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was publicly chastised at an Armed Services Committee hearing last week by Senator John McCain of Arizona, who has always been a strong proponent of the war.
Senator McCain bluntly declared that "things have not gone as we had planned or expected, nor as we were told by you, General Myers."
The general replied, "I don't think this committee or the American public has ever heard me say that things are going very well in Iraq."
During an appearance at a naval base in California, Mr. Bush characterized the war that he started in Iraq as the moral equivalent of America's struggle against the Nazis and the Japanese in World War II.
If that's true, the entire nation should be mobilized. But, of course, it's not true. This is a reckless, indefensible war that has been avoided like the plague by the children of the privileged classes.
Even the most diehard defenders of this debacle are coming to the realization that it is doomed. So the party line now is that the Iraqis at some point will have to bear the burden of Mr. Bush's war alone.
Talk about a cruel joke.
You have been reading excerpts from "For No Good Reason" by Bob Herbert. You can read the entire piece here: tinyurl.com/buybp. Thanks to Bob Herbert and topplebush.com.
based on a report by Bob Herbert. October 3, 2005
It's finally becoming clear on Capitol Hill, and maybe even in the White House, that the United States cannot win the war in Iraq. The only question still to be decided is how many more American lives will be wasted in George W. Bush's grand debacle.
The wheels have fallen off the cart in Iraq, and only those in the farthest reaches of denial are hanging on to the illusion of an American triumph over the insurgency.
Air Force General Richard Myers, who retired Friday as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was publicly chastised at an Armed Services Committee hearing last week by Senator John McCain of Arizona, who has always been a strong proponent of the war.
Senator McCain bluntly declared that "things have not gone as we had planned or expected, nor as we were told by you, General Myers."
The general replied, "I don't think this committee or the American public has ever heard me say that things are going very well in Iraq."
During an appearance at a naval base in California, Mr. Bush characterized the war that he started in Iraq as the moral equivalent of America's struggle against the Nazis and the Japanese in World War II.
If that's true, the entire nation should be mobilized. But, of course, it's not true. This is a reckless, indefensible war that has been avoided like the plague by the children of the privileged classes.
Even the most diehard defenders of this debacle are coming to the realization that it is doomed. So the party line now is that the Iraqis at some point will have to bear the burden of Mr. Bush's war alone.
Talk about a cruel joke.
You have been reading excerpts from "For No Good Reason" by Bob Herbert. You can read the entire piece here: tinyurl.com/buybp. Thanks to Bob Herbert and topplebush.com.
