The New Road

Here is how the Iraq war will end

Here is my prediction on how the Iraq war will end. The Republican spin machine will start up about two weeks in advance of the announcment with the party line; "We gave the Iraqi's a shot at freedom and they pissed it away. Obviously spreading freedom is priceless, but while you can lead a horse to water you can't make it drink. So we need to get out of there."

The setup is already in the works. There is a constitional process in the works that sputters, stalls and dies on a daily basis. All they have to do is scuttle it a little further and spin it as a combination of gross incompetence with a touch of racist indignance and they are good to go. The underlying message being; we thought they could handle freedom, but they can't.

A couple of weeks later we will get an oval office address saying basically the same thing, and a time table for a withdrawl. As a result the President will get a huge polls bounce and be back in the 50 range (up from 32 now).

If I had to put a date on this it would be right around the start of the campaign season next year. That way the neo-con fringe candidates can still ride the coat tails.

What's sad about this is that this will create a literal day upon which the Republicans will stake someone's traitor/patriot status. If you supported the troops and their mission all the way up to the date, and you can recite the canned bullshit line, then you are a patriot. Otherwise you are a stinking liberal traitor. Just like 66% of the people in this country according to a recent poll.