Sunday, November 25, 2007
If at first you don't succeed, just call it a success.
This has been SOP with domestic policy for Our Dear Embattled Leader and his Bumbling Bushoviks since 2001. Now, in a daring burst of creativity, they are applying this procedure to Iraq. Frustrated by lack of political success, ODEL and the BB boys are planning to claim what few political advances are occurring in Baghdad as great achievements of their policy aims.
With American military successes outpacing political gains in Iraq, the Bush administration has lowered its expectation of quickly achieving major steps toward unifying the country, including passage of a long-stymied plan to share oil revenues and holding regional elections.So the Iraqis are doing something on their own and Li'l Georgie is declaring another carrier moment for his wondrous and still undetermined war aims. Allegedly 3800+ Americans have died for the as yet undisclosed war aims of this administration. If Li'l Georgie and his minions is going to dumb down those aims to what ever he can call a success because it happened, then it has become obvious. George W Bush is declaring that those Americans have died in vain.
Instead, administration officials say they are focusing their immediate efforts on several more limited but achievable goals in the hope of convincing Iraqis, foreign governments and Americans that progress is being made toward the political breakthroughs that the military campaign of the past 10 months was supposed to promote.
The short-term American targets include passage of a $48 billion Iraqi budget, something the Iraqis say they are on their way to doing anyway; renewing the United Nations mandate that authorizes an American presence in the country, which the Iraqis have done repeatedly before; and passing legislation to allow thousands of Baath Party members from Saddam Hussein’s era to rejoin the government. A senior Bush administration official described that goal as largely symbolic since rehirings have been quietly taking place already.
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