Last year, an amorphous political and media symphony put forth that Iraq was a simple, simple civil war restricted to just Shiites and Sunnis therein for control of its laws and oil...and that Bush was just siding with Sunnis to please the thousands of bin Ladens he'd created and save face with the Saudi Royal Family, and to placate Mymood Alibabajihad who's only trying to help out his Shiite brethren in their own self-determined Iraq.

 

Well, hasn't THAT rodomontade become obviously completely untrue?

 

Yet for 2008, it appears the same amorphous crowd wants to advance an extension thereof:"...and since what Bush has been doing is just choosing sides in a simple civil war we have no stake in or frets over, all we're going to stand for is partitioning Iraq into separate but equal tribes because THAT's what Iraq's government always wanted as a way to share power...THEY'VE always wanted that you know, not us, and help is on the way, people of Iraq, just as soon as Bush is out!!!!".

 

Today I received an email PSA from VoteVets in support of such sentiment, and here is what I said about it and shall comment to others:

 

"Via CSPAN last night, I watched a replay of President Bush and the ceremony for outgoing General Pace; I have always, do , and always will agree with their sentiments. Today I found the within forwarded VoteVets PSA telling me Bush policy has failed in Iraq...yes, it seems helping the Iraqis obtain to their own self-determination is not what Congressional non-Conservatives and rudderless opportunists wanted, oh and Petraeus isn't responsible for following orders pending, and because Bush did THAT instead of announce USA partitioning day one he HAS failed...don't worry, give Wesley Clinton Clark enough time, and he and his WILL invent how you can both oppose separate but equal WHILE endorsing partition, and how you can both defy Qaeda through calling Iraq spoils of war in aider of his puke AND not be running away and caving into his no democracy/no free trade mantra via complete exit and manifest USA collectivization run and composed by officials only."

 

To reiterate, I continue to believe that current criticism of President Bush re Iraq and the war on terror is wholly partisan and based on the wish and will of such critics, craven admirers thereof, and rudderless but ever profit seeking opportunists, there appearing no just reason to condemn the Mid-East plans of President Bush made in communion with Constitutional and traditional military and diplomatic parties.

 
It doesn't seem a good idea to gut Iraq action and general defense when you DON'T have a 1960's industrial-military complex, you'd be turning the globe over to forces hostile to that globe, and all because SCHIP or other Socialized or collectivized mass conversion into basically government run and government owned healtchcare and housing.