Some of you should know better. It's not that Monkey Ass is "totally out of it" or "incompetent" about Iraq. He's been told exactly what to spew for public consumption. He HAS to keep repeating the BS lines to keep those that still support him fooled, including those in the military who are still loyal.

It's the same propaganda that he regurgitates daily on the economy, War on Terra, warrantless spying, and everything else of any importance.

So, why do you keep making the "incompetence" excuse for him, Mr. Rothschild? Either your analysis here is incompetent, or you are a paid shill.

"Good-cop, bad-cop" surely does 'work' in the US...does it not?

THIS, from a 'Rothschild'...!

"It is to laugh..."

In his press conference alongside Kevin Rudd, Bush claimed he had told Maliki to go after Shia insurgents with the same vigor as Sunni insurgents, then claimed that the decision taken was Maliki's decision and Maliki's alone. Could it be that Bush, hearing that credit for downtick in violence in Iraq was going not to the surge but to Moqtada al Sadr's truce, made a call to Baghdad saying "Who will rid me of this turbulent Shiite cleric?"

When trying to engage in a conversation with the average 'conservative' citizen, (I don't know how to describe tham anymore), you find when they have no facts to support them, they make them up.

Since Inauguration Day, Cheney/Bush have killed an average of 2 soldiers per day, everyday.

And that's just based on the "official" KIA stats.

Hey - turns out a huge swath of 'Merkins are totally out of it on Iraq as well: USA/Gallop reports 41 million still support the Loonitary Decider.

PS ... one thing Mr. Nichols is wrong about is that the US gov has picked a side in this civil war since the beginning. We essentially created a side when we created this puppet Iraqi government. By doing that, the US essentially became a side in the civil war itself, up until the day they get smart and withdraw.

Siouxrose ...

Looking backwards, it would seem that we were doomed from the moment the US Gov obtained vast power around the world. For, the power of the US gov to rule the world and to control vast sums of money meant that this power was going to be seized by the wicked and greedy. As soon as we became all powerful, it became important to others to control our government, and thus to control us.

Perhaps, a more fitting title for this piece:" BUSH IS TOTALLY OFF OF HIS "IRAQ-ER""

Those the Gods would destroy...

MIMICCS: I am in full agreement with the observations you related. Amazing how deliberately the boundary to treason is being tap danced over in the holy quest for mammon/profits of blood.

From the very beginning of this country the rich have paid one half of the poor to kill the other half. It is American as apple pie. Land trusts are another robber baron way of providing custodial care of thier land.

W has been delusional since childhood---it was the only escape from his gargoyle of a mother and craven tyrant of a Dad. He was floating in space while blowing bubbles in his Harvard seminars---and now he's a first class war criminal and psychotic. Friends and I knew Iraqistan was going to be a catastrophe before the troops moved, while the media ran over us (like everybody) and said we were "behind" it all....Well, as they say, WHEN SMALL MEN CAST LONG SHADOWS, THE SUN IS GOING DOWN

Instability, death, and looting of another countries resources go hand in hand. This is the divide and rule strategy all empires use to profit their country. In our case, our country also loots it's own citizens to pay for the military adventures that profit it's corporations. Since most of the profits get booked overseas, or laundered, they are not taxed in the US, so the country as a whole does not profit, but the powers that be who are globalists and who lead us, are not loyal to America.

Nice way of saying they are traitors, but when 10 of the 17 primary dealers the Fed uses are foreign based corporations, it shows our corporate "citizens" are few, as large corporate ownership is globalized, loyal to no nation. They consider themselves global citizens and free to loot any nation, cheered on by the globalist powers that be.

As Smedley Butler said, it is just a Racket. Today, the racket has gone nuclear, globally, and America is being looted from within.

As Jeremiah Wright said, GOD (Government Of Decadence) has damned America, as well as a slew of other Countries, and our military has been outsourced to serve it's global corporate masters in places like Iraq.

"From here, things are likely to spin even further out of control, with even less political stability and even less economic activity (except for stealing oil), and even more deaths all around."

Which has been the plan all along:

All hail George W.Bush, All Hail Richard B. Cheney:

Great Masters of the Puny Brained.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

Do you remember the push into Baghdad? We all laughed at their state news station's anchorman, who declared that the war was going well, and the American Dogs are on the run, as his very building was getting stormed. "Such blatant disinformation," thought I, "is a watermark of totalitarianism."

some people enjoy violence

As magikpowerwoman stated, you don't have to be a military genius to figure out this would not workout as they were stating.

Bush was the perfect "sockpuppet" for the Repugs military ambitions but nobody could have made this many errors and have the war last this long by mistake. This is exactly what they wanted, high gas prices for their friends in the oil business as well as funding the military industrial machine. And they don't care how many good kids have to die and be maimed to accomplish it; they certainly don't have any in the line of fire.

And we will all be paying for years to come for the tax breaks provided to the rich and the huge defecit they will leave behind. Mission Acommplished!

Maureen Dowd of the New York Times said it best a while back when she wrote of the isolation/insulation of the White House from Main Street America:

"Most presidents DO live in a bubble. This one lives in a Thermos."

Hummm, It must be hard to speak out of both sides of your mouth, Matthew.

Bush has "traveled in a caravan of decoy limousines" from as far back as summer 2000 when he was campaigning for President for the first time -- we saw his retinue at that hotbed of radical resistance of Medina, Wash (Bill Gates Land) -- no less than 25 police motorcycles, an ambulance, and three identical Suburbans, each with black tinted windshields. The rich and the beautiful were attending a fundraiser for him at the Nordstrom residence. We stood across the street and watched the limos (like a shell game -- which one is he in ?) leave.

The man has been "totally out of it" for at least that long.

I do not consider myself a military expert, but I'm now two for two. When Bush declared "Misson Accomplished" I said out loud, as if he could hear me, "Yeah, you think so? Just you wait, asshole". And now it's the end of the "surge". It was pretty obvious to me and I imagine countless other non-experts, that the surge was working only because of Sadr's standown. I knew as soon as that stopped, the violence would increase dramatically again. And Bush calls it "success". Wow. He's incredibly delusional and I'm counting the seconds until he is GONE!

Baghdad can continue to rot but Basra has to be controlled. It's the handle on the oil that the oil law will control. The Iraqi people will unite to prevent the US from stealing their oil even if America can get a government in Baghdad to agree to the law. Get ready fro the "we had to destroy it in order to save it" spin.
Hoa binh