Letters to the Editor
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Bush's War
In addition to Bush's faith allowing him to overlook the war's cost and lack of success, there is also the absence of any impact on his personal world: no loved ones at risk, no property damage, no monetary loss. Just his anticipation of riding into the Texas sunset having bequeathed this incredible mess to someone else. Consequences? For the people of Iraq, for the American troops, for the taxpayers, for America's future, plenty. For Bush, nada.
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And That Means Everyone!
"Don't Just Blame Bush - Blame All His Enablers
Every last idiotic Republican and their fellow-travelers who voted for and supported this idiot and his incompetent administration is responsible for this mess."
I couldn't agree more, which is absolutely why I will not be voting for Hillary Clinton next year or any other douche-baggy Dem who kissed Bush's arrogant ass back in 2002 because they were scared to death that a no vote on Iraq would mean a defeat in November.
"Bush overstepped his mandate" ... Please. What the fuck did you think a guy who stole the 2000 election was going to do?
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it almost goes without saying
that shrub is a lunatic. somehow, the inmates have gotten control of the asylum - the non-delusional people of this country seem to have acquiesced to the deluded, and we don't appear to have a Chief to rescue us. then again, trying to reason with them is not unlike trying to teach a pig to sing - it's a waste of time, and it annoys the pig.
personally, i don't see a solution. even when jr rides off into the sunset and cheney goes back to whatever sewer he crawled out of we're still going to have to contend with the faux news channel and their ilk. perhaps this version of the democratic experiment has run its course. i'd advocate anarchy, but it's too hard to get everyone to agree on a place to meet.
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Pop Psych
I used to think it was an interesting parlor game, guessing why the president acts as he does. It's past that. His failures are so deep and broad that the why doesn't matter.
The only interesting questions are
a) what do we do now?
b) why are there so many people who think the results are just fine?
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Perhaps one good thing
I can only think of one good thing that might come out of this war, and that's what defeat in the Falklands did for the Argentines. It gave them their democracy back.
Can you imagine how far we'd be down the road to dictatorship if things were going WELL in Iraq?
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This War has resulted in predicable chaos
Mr. Kamiya is too kind to the Bush administration. Only fools didn’t know that what the war the Bushies were proposing posed a high likelihood of just what we have: Revenge of the Shiites on the Sunnis and Sunnis trying to get back their power (just having any say at all was always going to be unlikely). The problem with al-Qaeda stirring the pot was maybe less obvious in the beginning. But with a little planning ...
What was unforeseeable is the shear incompetence of the Republicans. (Even now, every Republican candidate endorses torture and the war. And these are Christians? God save us!)
Could any one have predicted that the US Army would leave weapons depots unguarded, allow the country to be looted, fire all of the Iraqi military & Police, and just basically refuse to supply enough troops to do the job? The amount and scope war profiteering boggles the mind. The refusal to provide the troops with armor or out of theater medial care is just unconscionable. Who could have guessed that having a moron for Pres would cause all of this?
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Huh?
chthonic forces far too large for us to comprehend, let along control.
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He does not careabout the real world -- because for him it isn't the true reality.
Then why is he running so fast to have his anal polyps taken out at the tax payers expense? And I'm still waiting for some truth on the 9/11 attacks.
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Missed the well-armed elephant in the room
The author misses the point. Bush is a dangerous, and useful, idiot. The end result of the Iraq war and the general destabilization of the regions adjacent and nearby Iraq will be to transfer the national wealth of the people of the United States and her allies to the coffers and bottom lines of global armament providers and operators. Widespread death and destruction is simply a byproduct of this transfer.
Poor people the world over will be offered a place of privilige in the new Empire created by these entities for submitting themselves to participate in this new paradigm. Those of us who oppose war and it's sponsors will find ourselves on thinner ice as global war heats up.
Millions of us marched on February 15, 2003, in the full knowledge that the Bush administration was going to use the Iraq adventure to obfuscate and solidify the greatest transfer of wealth from the general citizenry to the owning class that has ever been seen. We were deliberately brushed off and ignored by the general media and most elected officials. Arrogant ignorance ruled the day, and apparently still does.
Looked at as a "smash and grab" of the U.S. Treasury, the Iraq war is a stunning success. It was not a mistake, and the coming war in Iran won't be a mistake. War planners have been quietly placing naval commanders in charge of the next war, as it will be fought in large part from expensive missle platforms at sea. Every time a tomahawk missle goes up, Lockheed Martin puts another cool million in it's pocket. Note to the author: Wake up! This war was well planned to never end.
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Vampirolog
Gee, if I had read what you wrote, I could have just written: What Vampirolog said.
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Oil, power, and Bush's faith
This is an astute article but I can't convey how tired I am of reading articles about the war, or hearing politicans talk about it, and not finding the sacred word OIL. This war only makes sense if you see that Bush does not ever want it to end in any real way because he wants our troops there forever, or at least until the oil is gone. That's why we're building city-like permanent military bases in Iraq, another fact no one thinks worthy of thinking about. Access to oil, control of the region, greed and lust for power are what really drive this insane jackass--that and his unresolved addictions. Bush and the corporate culture that spawned him are low-level sociopaths and it's time we start treating them as such. They should all be put in asylums where they can really start living their dreams.