The DavidCyrus Blog of Wisdom

Where is Our Iraq War Plan?"
...same as it ever was...

George Bush spent Tuesday evening in Fort Bragg, giving a speech on the status of the Iraq war. It was a short speech, saying nearly nothing more than, "It's all been worth it!" There is no plan to create a timetable for removing our soldiers from Iraq, nor any plan to change the number of American troops deployed in Iraq. Either of those ideas, we are told, would be playing into the hands of the terrorists, who apparently succeed if we implement a solid plan. Why that would be the case is anybody's guess.

An editorial in The New York Times states it succinctly; "[Bush] told the nation, again and again, that a stable and democratic Iraq would be worth American sacrifices, while the nation was wondering whether American sacrifices could actually produce a stable and democratic Iraq."

As stated in David Corn's summary for "The Nation","Once more Bush claimed the war in Iraq was an appropriate and mandatory response to 9/11." To quote Bush himself, "The only way our enemies can succeed is if we forget the lessons of September 11..."

What lessons are we supposed to have learned from 9/11? Does Bush actually agree with the maniacal sadistic fervor of Karl Rove, in that our only lesson was that we should prepare for war; any war, anywhere, wars planned years in advance, whether they addressed our mission or not?

...and speaking of the 9/11 attacks...
Here's a well-argued summary of the multitude of strange coincidences that took place on September 11th, 2001.