Sticks, Balls, Idiocy and Insult
Originally published at Durosia.com. You can comment here or there.
One of my favorite news commentator of all time, Kieth Olberman, has once again masterfully taken the Bush regime to task in a way I could only hope to do.
Love him or hate him, Olberman has facts to back up most of his criticism (if not all). Read it. Watch it and discuss.
The question was phrased as follows: "If we were to pull out of Iraq next year, what's the worst that could happen, what's the doomsday scenario?"
The president replied: "Doomsday scenario of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States. The biggest issue we face is, it's bigger than Iraq, it's this ideological struggle against cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives."
The keyword there was Doomsday scenario - as in the worst possible outcome from the action. And I have to agree with Bush here the worst possible outcome would have the pulling out of Iraq being a propaganda coup for Al Qaeda emboldening them to strike on US and friendly Arab government targets.
/Not suggesting myself that we should have gone into Iraq - in fact I thought the decision was amazingly stupid and joined the pre-war protests. My personal position is that we're kinda stuck now and need to at least leave Iraq with something that kind of resembles a working state that can't be easily taken over by militants in an Bolshevik or Nazi style takeover.
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It was an unfortunate choice of lead in that did deal with an actual opinion I've heard from Republican circles, though.
That, and I figured the golf thing near the end more than makes up for the slightly sensationalized lead. :)
You'd think we would have learned something about working in the Middle East from Operation AJAX... oh, right, that's history and can't possibly be important in this new, modern age...
*sigh*
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