Saturday, January 06, 2007
Another voice cries out against escalation
This time it is Joe Galloway, long time Knight-Ridder, now McClatchy, military correspondent and one very familiar with the waste of war.
George W. Bush believes that he can buy another couple of years of violent stalemate so he can hand off the disaster to whoever succeeds him in the White House on January 20, 2009.But Georgie won't listen because it is not what he wants to hear. And what are a few more casualties? They aren't his family or friends.
How many more Americans and Iraqis must die to ensure that Bush’s parting words as he retreats to Crawford, Texas, will be: I never cut and ran. I stood tall. I kept America safe.
The problem with that scenario is that it, like all the others drawn by George Bush and Dick Cheney, is far too rosy. The way forward in Iraq is a spiral toward an even bloodier future, and the real decisions are the Iraqis', not George Bush’s.
It’s too little, too late, Mr. President.
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