The New Road

Bush is just off target

Obviously with 60% of American's wanting us out of Iraq, God's man in the White House has some 'splaining to do. Let's see how he explains it to use fools:

As we work to deliver opportunity at home, we're also keeping you safe from threats from abroad. We went to war because we were attacked, and we are at war today because there are still people out there who want to harm our country and hurt our citizens.

By who? By Saddam? No. Facts and reports all say unequivocally that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11. And the man who did attack us is running free as a bird.

Some may disagree with my decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power, but all of us can agree that the world's terrorists have now made Iraq a central front in the war on terror.

And we are losing.

Why are they fighting us there? Because it's cheaper to fight us there. When they can cause millions of dollars of damage with a cheap road side IED, why even bother with elaborate terrorist plots?

These foreign terrorists violently oppose the rise of a free and democratic Iraq, because they know that when we replace despair and hatred with liberty and hope, they lose their recruiting grounds for terror.

He really has to come up with some new bullshit lines. They don't like us because we don't understand them. We are trying to turn their country into a neo-con Christian holy land and, surprise surprise, they aren't digging that.

Let's cut the crap and bring the troops home. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The longer we stay the more bodies there will be on both sides. It's really just a question of how many people you want to die. And the longer we stay, the more we will lose on a monthly basis. That's because we will be sending in fresher recruits who don't have enough training, and because the insurgency is constantly getting stronger and more skilled.

There is nothing Bush can say that will justify this war. There is nothing Bush can say that will convince anyone that he isn't completely disconnected from reality while our sons and daughters die for no good reason. The problem we have is that we have an intransigent idiot in office who would rather drive onward into insanity than look weak by actually trying different approaches to this horrible situation.