The Emperor has no uniform...Do any of the "US mainstream news media" propapunditgandists have the conscience or the integrity or the clarity of mind or the courage to speak this truth? Here it is from the free press of France via WWW.TRUTHOUT.ORG, a bastion of the Information Rebellion...
Patrick Sabatier, Liberation: For his allies, the dilemma is now formidable. How can you help an elephant drowning in a swamp without drowning along with it? The risk of regional escalation is real, as is that of a civil war in Iraq in the case of withdrawal. It's probably already too late to hope that the UN could stabilize a situation at the edge of the abyss. The worst is not certain. However, what is sure is that Bush has no solution to the Iraqi problem. He is the problem.
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The Worst Scenario
By Patrick Sabatier
Liberation
Thursday, April 08, 2004
The question now is not whether the United States is stuck in a quagmire-the answer is yes- but rather whether it can still get out of it, and, above all, how. One year after taking Baghdad, George W. Bush can hammer out his determination to change nothing about his policy as much as he likes, he nonetheless sees the worst scenario taking place right before his eyes, the scenario against which he had been warned by those of his allies unwilling to follow him with their eyes shut. The Sunni guerilla war continues, some of the Shi'ia are in rebellion, the Provisional Iraqi Authority is powerless, the country's reconstruction compromised by the lack of security, and GIs coming home in sinister body bags are ever more numerous. They are no longer even pretending to try to win "the hearts and minds" of a populace that Bush was supposed to want to liberate, and they have allowed themselves to be dragged into a true guerilla war.
Iraq is not yet "Bush's Vietnam". However, it is already, as Vietnam was, the chronicle of a predicted disaster.
Bush has imprisoned himself in a fearsome chess game by fixing June 30 for the transfer of power to a phantom Iraqi government. In order to get himself reelected in November as a "War President", haloed by a fraudulent success in Iraq, he took the risk of dragging his countrymen into a true debacle, his allies along with them. This is no Roosevelt.
For his allies, the dilemma is now formidable. How can you help an elephant drowning in a swamp without drowning along with it? The risk of regional escalation is real, as is that of a civil war in Iraq in the case of withdrawal. It's probably already too late to hope that the UN could stabilize a situation at the edge of the abyss.
The worst is not certain. However, what is sure is that Bush has no solution to the Iraqi problem. He is the problem.
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