Bush's Plan

President Bush revealed his strategy for Iraq yesterday. I warn you, it's complex, a difficult concept. Almost beyond the realm of possibilities. Ya wanna hear it? Here it go...he's going to let some future president handle it. That's his grand plan. To tell you the truth, if that future president weren't a whole 3 years away from now, that wouldn't sound like such a bad idea, considering Bush has managed to turn the war in Iraq into an uber-clusterfuck. He's like King Midas, only in his case everything he touches doesn't turn to gold, it turns to a sticky,tar-like substance, that smells exactly like shit.

Did you ever wonder what they called the "Hundred Years War" just 3 years into it?

Does anyone remember this from 2003?

On CBS's "Face the Nation" on March 16, Cheney said the fight would be "weeks rather than months. There's always the possibility of complications that you can't anticipate, but I have great confidence in our troops." Cheney also predicted the fight would "go relatively quickly, but we can't count on that." That same day on NBC's "Meet the Press," Cheney said, "I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." It was then he predicted that the regular Iraqi soldiers would not "put up such a struggle," and that even "significant elements of the Republican Guard . . . are likely to step aside." Asked if Americans are prepared for a "long, costly and bloody battle," Cheney replied: "Well, I don't think it's likely to unfold that way. . . . The read we get on the people of Iraq is there is no question but what they want to the get rid of Saddam Hussein, and they will welcome as liberators the United States when we come to do that." Cheney has spoken that way for months.

In September 2002, he said that "you always plan for the worst," but he also said, "I don't think it would be that tough a fight; that is, I don't think there's any question that we would prevail." In a speech in August, he cited a scholar's view that "the streets in Basra and Baghdad are sure to erupt in joy in the same way the throngs in Kabul greeted the Americans."

Well we're looking at, at least, 3 additional years brought to you by BushCo.

Link to Bush Article


Link to Cheney Interview