Friday, September 24, 2004
If I could save Time in a bottle...
Jim Croce
Kevin Drum has a very good reminder of the timeline for what's gone on in Iraq and why. Kevin attempts to lay out all of the reasons for Bush's actions in regard to Iraq and comes up with only one: politics.
Nowhere was this more evident than yesterday's very scary press conference. Bush can't remember that the Afghan Army isn't actually in Iraq and thinks that Iraq can have elections when huge chunks of the country are under insurgent control and won't be able to vote. Rumsfeld comes out later and "clarifies", saying that they can have elections but it won't be perfect...but nothing is so it doesn't matter.
Kerry will have a very big, very ugly mess to deal with when he takes the reins. He's going to need to have a major summit meeting immediately...and unfortunately he's going to have to deal with Allawi, who we've installed to run that country and appears to be no more credible or decent than was Chalabi. Bush has put us in one hell of a situation.
Update: The Kerry Campaign is making hay with yesterday's Bush press conference...with an ad that's already set to rotate in it's TV spots. check it out.
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Kevin Drum has a very good reminder of the timeline for what's gone on in Iraq and why. Kevin attempts to lay out all of the reasons for Bush's actions in regard to Iraq and comes up with only one: politics.
Nowhere was this more evident than yesterday's very scary press conference. Bush can't remember that the Afghan Army isn't actually in Iraq and thinks that Iraq can have elections when huge chunks of the country are under insurgent control and won't be able to vote. Rumsfeld comes out later and "clarifies", saying that they can have elections but it won't be perfect...but nothing is so it doesn't matter.
Kerry will have a very big, very ugly mess to deal with when he takes the reins. He's going to need to have a major summit meeting immediately...and unfortunately he's going to have to deal with Allawi, who we've installed to run that country and appears to be no more credible or decent than was Chalabi. Bush has put us in one hell of a situation.
Update: The Kerry Campaign is making hay with yesterday's Bush press conference...with an ad that's already set to rotate in it's TV spots. check it out.
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