Well, not exactly--you see, what Shrub's actually doing is trying to foist the blame for Operation Debacle in the Desert on the Democrats...because they supposedly don't have a plan. And he "does."
Here are some of the details:
It had been almost a year since I was in the Iraqi capital, where I worked as a reporter in the days of Saddam Hussein, the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, and the occupation, guerrilla war and religious resurgence that followed. On my return, it was difficult to grasp how atomized and violent the 1,250-year-old city has become. Even on the worst days, I had always found Baghdad's most redeeming quality to be its resilience, a tenacious refusal among people I met over three years to surrender to the chaos unleashed when the Americans arrived. That resilience is gone, overwhelmed by civil war, anarchy or whatever term could possibly fit. Baghdad now is convulsed by hatred, paralyzed by suspicion; fear has forced many to leave. Carnage its rhythm and despair its mantra, the capital, it seems, no longer embraces life.
"A city of ghosts," a friend told me, her tone almost funereal.
And here's an example of a "pacified" Iraqi town:
There is a police station in Yarmouk but the police are holed up inside, powerless to intervene, because the insurgents are better armed. The best way to bribe a policeman these days is with bullets; they stop expensive cars and where once they demanded money, they now want ammunition. Last week 18 policemen were killed in a Sunni ambush in Khan Bani Sa’ad, 20 miles north of Baghdad, because they had run out of bullets.
Over HERE, is it just me, or have others noticed that the debacle on the Gulf Coast, aka, Team Bush's response to 2005's hurricane season--and the flood of New Orleans--has been swept under the proverbial rug? Even the online Pic ignored it in an op-ed today. This at-home reflection of the incompetence that brought us the "New Iraq" is as damming a testimony to Team Bush incompetence as their casual dismissal of the daily death toll over there.
You don't reward that sort of incompetence and stupidity--you show it the door.
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