What Does The Speech Mean?

This is an analysis of the latest Bush speech and it is a dosey.

First the surge was to help the Iraqis to come to some type of reconciliation, Baghdad was to be secured to allow this to proceed. But now the surge is all about the success in Anbar, which really does not have anything to do with the surge. This would have happened without the increase in troops. So this is crap!

Second, The Pres keeps harping on the importance of getting al-Qaeda as the bottom line. But yet the intel agencies say it is about the sectarian violence as the major problem facing Iraq. Bush is selling the AQ thing because it appears that it can be won--at least in his little mind.

Third, Mission Accomplished, Stay The Course, A Way Forward, yada, yada......The Pres keeps changing the mission to suit him politically and his lame ass policies.

Fourth, The draw down of troops will begin soon because the surge is working, Bush's terms, not mine. The surge was sold to the Congress as a temporary deployment from the beginning. So Priscilla is not doing any favors.

Fifth, Bush has stated that he accepts the report given by Patraeus.....thinking.....thinking.....what a breakthrough! Have you been listening to the Pres for the last month? Patraeus said NOTHING that Bush had not already outlined in past speeches. So to believe that the general came up with this plan on his own is just short of STUPID!

Sixth, Victory was never used in the Pres speech, he did however use the term "success" a bunch of times. So, that brings us to the crux of the speech:

The US is in Iraq for about a generation or more. Victory is no longer an option just a success is all the US is looking for. But what is the success? That is to be determined by the Admin--it may have nothing to do with the sectarian violence or homelessness or...........But you can bet your scrawny ass that it will have everything to do with OIL.

CHUQ

15 Sept 2007