Tuesday, June 28, 2005
"Clear Path to Victory"
President Curveball gives the nation a little pep talk this evening to assure us he sees a "clear path to victory" in Iraq. Meanwhile...
The news now from Iraq is only depressing. All the roads leading out of the capital are cut. Iraqi security and US troops can only get through in heavily armed convoys. There is a wave of assassinations of senior Iraqi officers based on chillingly accurate intelligence. A deputy police chief of Baghdad was murdered on Sunday. A total of 52 senior Iraqi government or religious figures have been assassinated since the handover. In June 2004 insurgents killed 42 US soldiers; so far this month 75 have been killed.And the beat goes on. General John Abizaid, who heads U.S. Central Command, told Congress, "the insurgency has not weakened." He continued,
Our men and women in uniform are serving with great honor. They deserve an objective assessment of the situation in Iraq. They deserve a clear layout of the next steps there. They're not getting either from the administration.The administration believes that the only problem with Iraq is public relations and that the right sales pitch will smooth everything over. They seem incapable of understanding that the public recognizes the disconnect from reality between their words and what we are seeing and hearing from those on the ground. How can we trust their ability to solve a problem they will not acknowledge exists?
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