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March 04, 2006
Another Redundant Reconfirmation, Again
This is from a recent article in the New Yorker by Connie Bruck called "Exiles" (not online):
James Dobbins, the Bush Administration's special envoy for Afghanistan, told me that in the prewar planning for Iraq "there was an intention that the U.S. would retain troops in Iraqâ€â€Ânot for Iraq stabilization, because that was thought not to be needed, but for coercive diplomacy in the region. Meaning Iran and Syria."
Huh. Let's climb the 5,000 mile tall ladder to the top of the evidence pile and drop that on top.
Here's George Bush less than four weeks before the war began, on February 26, 2003:
...we will remain in Iraq as long as necessary, and not a day more.
George Bush, less than three weeks before, March 6, 2003:
Should we have to go in, our mission is very clear: disarmament... And our mission won't change. Our mission is precisely what I just stated.Posted at March 4, 2006 07:41 PM | TrackBack
We can't invade Iran without any boots on the ground. We can't control Halliburton's oil reserves in Iran if we don't invade.( Their new president seems uncooperative or just plain won't be bought. He's UNAMERICAN that way.) We can't invade (or pay off those UNAMERICAN politicians) unless we all chip in our fair and balanced share of BLOOD AND TREASURE. Time for all of us to knuckle down(under?)and divie up.
CITIZENS' SIGNATURES AND PETITIONS COUNT.
James Dobbins...love that name...shall we call him Dobby the House Elf?
Posted by: En Ming Hee at March 5, 2006 12:01 AMIraq was a dotcom fantasy. Iran more so. Iran is the noose that this administration and its cronies will hang themselves with.
Based on Frist's feeble threats to Reid. It seems like Frist no longer wants to be in the Senate. I guess he will be next on the corruption scandal probe of the week. I don't think Lott has the same qualms as Frist does about impeaching the president.
These guys are fools. Dangerous fools at the moment. But fools none the less.
Posted by: patience at March 5, 2006 01:02 AMIran is the noose that this administration and its cronies will hang themselves with.
but we're all their galloglasses, and I'm afraid that swinging on the gallows with them we shall go. . .
Posted by: Saheli at March 5, 2006 01:09 AMMaybe he was covering for one of the covert "secret, even in success" undercover operations he warned us about two years earlier.
Posted by: Darryl Pearce at March 5, 2006 04:46 PMOh, irony. If America had gotten out of Iraq in autumn of 03, if they had withdrawn most of their forces, I think it is a good chance war would be in the offing now, or maybe even in 05, between Iran and the U.S. But bogging down in Iraq, Uncle Sam shot his wad, and guaranteed that there was no Iraqi oil on-line to take the place of the Iranian oil that would be taken out of the world system. Although the Boltons and, no doubt, the remnant Rumsfeld circle in the Department of War are all lathered up about doing Iran, I think the probability is that it is not gonna happen.
So I suppose in one way Bush is a peace president -- having put a piece of the U.S. in Iraq, he gave a hostage to fortune he can't get back. Funny, in a very sick way. Perhaps Bush should call his act... The Aristocrats!
Posted by: roger at March 6, 2006 02:45 PMcoercive diplomacy
It's the only kind we do, apparently...
Posted by: Nell at March 6, 2006 09:26 PM
