George Walker Bush is a plague upon humankind:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President George W. Bush will tell skeptical Americans on Wednesday he will send 21,500 more U.S. troops to Iraq as part of a long-delayed new plan for the unpopular war, setting up a confrontation with Democrats.
The fresh infusion of troops will join about 130,000 already in Iraq. Senior administration officials said 17,500 would go to Baghdad and 4,000 to volatile Anbar province.
The first wave of troops are expected to arrive in five days, with others coming in additional waves. Under the plan, the Iraqi government will deploy additional Iraqi troops to Baghdad with a first brigade deploying February 1 and two more by February 15.
Senior administration officials said the cost of the troop increase would be around $5.6 billion. An additional $1.2 billion would finance a rebuilding and jobs programs.
If you watched his speech, you saw nothing more than a flashback, a repeat of the empty words he’s spewed before, the cawing of a bloody-beaked raven circling over the mounting dead.
Facts don’t matter. The opposition of Generals doesn’t matter, those same generals that he used to excuse his escalations of the past. Even lifelong Republicans are abandoning his insane, stubborn wasting of American and Iraqi lives, in the name of broader war and greed and American/Israeli imperialism:
Bush is like Hitler. He blames defeats on his military commanders, not on his own insane policy. Like Hitler, he protects himself from reality with delusion. In his last hours, Hitler was ordering non-existent German armies to drive the Russians from Berlin.
By manipulating Bush and provoking a military crisis in which the US stands to lose its army in Iraq, the neoconservatives hope to revive the implementation of their plan for US conquest of the Middle East. They believe they can use fear, “honor,” and the aversion of macho Americans to ignoble defeat to expand the conflict in response to military disaster. The neocons believe that the loss of an American army would be met with the electorate’s demand for revenge. The barriers to the draft would fall, as would the barriers to the use of nuclear weapons.
Neocon godfather Norman Podhoretz set out the plan for Middle East conquest several years ago in Commentary magazine. It is a plan for Muslim genocide. In place of physical extermination of Muslims, Podhoretz advocates their cultural destruction by deracination. Islam is to be torn out by the roots and reduced to a purely formal shell devoid of any real beliefs.
Podhoretz disguises the neoconservative attack against diversity with contrived arguments, but its real purpose is to use the US military to subdue Arabs and to create space for Israel to expand.
These are criticisms from his right, and complaints about Godwin’s Law or anti-Semitism become foolish when confronted with such obstinate evil.
Congress could fight back, but decades of McCarthyite tactics have rendered most politicians, especially Democrats, cowardly and accommodating when confronted by jingoistic chestbeating and needless, wasteful escalation. They are more likely to blame our victims, to self-righteously proclaim that we saintly Americans have done enough (see Durbin’s shameful Democratic response).
George Walker Bush is a plague on Humankind, and sadly it looks like the Democrats will continue to push carts through the carnage, crying out “Bring out your dead,” concerned only that the dead not be AMERICAN dead, and a pox upon everybody else.
Update [2007-1-11 13:15:34 by Madman in the Marketplace]:
Dick Durbin’s jingoistic response to Bush’s speech:
It’s time for President Bush to face the reality of Iraq. And the reality is this: America has paid a heavy price. We have paid with the lives of more than 3,000 of our soldiers. We have paid with the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform. And we’ve paid with the hard-earned tax dollars of the families of America.
And we have given the Iraqis so much. We have deposed their dictator. We dug him out of a hole in the ground and forced him to face the courts of his own people. We’ve given the Iraqi people a chance to draft their own constitution, hold their own free elections and establish their own government.
We Americans, and a few allies, have protected Iraq when no one else would. (EXCUSE ME?!?!?!
Now, in the fourth year of this war, it is time for the Iraqis to stand and defend their own nation.
The government of Iraq must now prove that it will make the hard political decisions which will bring an end to this bloody civil war, disband the militias and death squads, create an environment of safety and opportunity for every Iraqi, and begin to restore the basics of electricity and water and health care that define the quality of life.
The Iraqis must understand that they alone can lead their nation to freedom. They alone must meet the challenges that lie ahead. And they must know that, every time they call 911, we are not going to send 20,000 more American soldiers.
As Congress considers our future course in Iraq, we remain committed, on a bipartisan basis, to providing our soldiers every resource they need to fight effectively and come home safely.
disgusting.