Republican Pres. in ‘08? Not After Bush’s Biggest Screwup Yet
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on January 11th, 2007 4:49 pm by HL
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Say Good-bye to a Future Republican Presidency
Thomas Paine’s Corner
Excerpt
President George W. Bush, contrary to the will of the American and Iraqi peoples and his own military commanders, seems ready to embark on a potentially disastrous escalation of the Iraq war, which was lost long ago. This mind-numbingly idiotic strategy is sure to needlessly cost more American and Iraqi lives and to lose the presidency for the Republicans in 2008…
20,000 more U.S. troops will be sent to Iraq to dampen the violence in Baghdad and Anbar province. This relatively small number of troops will not quell the violence, however. Although more troops are being added, they will now patrol Shi’ite areas, as well as Sunni enclaves, thus continuing to be spread too thin. And news of the arrival of more foreign occupiers most likely will increase resistance…
the president is trapped in his own psychological maladies. Deep down, he knows that Iraq is an unsalvageable mess, but he is an avoider of bad news and cannot accept it mentally. Psychologically, he just hopes to postpone defeat in any way he can. Defeat in Iraq means a failed presidency for him. The likely outcome of this mental trap is to attempt to keep the lid on Iraq’s escalating civil war until he can hand off the problem to his successor.
Escalation of the war means his successor will very likely be a Democrat. By 2008, the failed Iraq policy will make the hawkish McCain radioactive as a candidate for president. Even Republicans who were skeptical of Bush’s war policies, such as Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), probably will not be able to win the presidency. In the 2006 congressional elections, even Republicans who opposed the war—for example, Jim Leach of Iowa—were defeated. Thus, Bush’s new strategy will likely strengthen Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress in 2008.
H.L.s Take
You got that right. As I read somewhere yesterday, the Democrats have to tred a thin line, If they take away funding for the war they leave themselves open to charges of “Losing The War” from Republicans, if on the other hand they sit back and criticize what Bush is doing, but do not try to stop him, they can sit back and watch while Bush goes down in the final throes of failure and humiliation in Iraq. Of course the downside of that is that more troops have to die. Of course if they would speak up, in plain English and continue to pound home the facts Bush would be so badly exposed that they could then cut his funding without getting the “lost the war” label. But as usual Democrats, and the media, keep there mouths shut about the catastrophe that is Everything Bush, and allow it to happen
