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HOW W’S DYSFUNCTIONAL APPROACH MIRRORS IRAQ

By Schuyler Thorpe
Author and Political Activist

Tit-for-tat killings, and ineffective government, ill-equipped and under-trained security forces…

Ah…Iraq, Iraq, Iraq.

Is this the kind of model democracy that Bush wants to spread for the Middle East?

Apparently so.

Think about it for a second.

Why is Bush still believing that this failed war in Iraq is the only way a heralded democracy will work?

Because that is the way Bush functions. He doesn’t see things in an orderly, judgmental fashion; but rather, a disorganized, and chaotic system of things–based partly on his own ineffective and incompetent leadership.

So what we see as disillusioned and out of the mainstream, Bush sees the exact opposite. According to Rumsfeld (upon his departure as Secretary of Defense): “The war is not well known. It was not understood; it is too complex for people to understand.”

And that right there is also a mirror of Bush’s approach to this war. And to Iraq's fragile democracy.

The people don’t understand, because they are not on the same wavelength as the Bush administration is. They are not as mentally deficient as this administration is. So they can’t possibly understand what is truly going on in Iraq–not without sinking down into the same chaotic instabilities which permeates the current governmental thinking.

And as a result of such instabilities, our own seat of government has become isolated from the rest of the world–and not just from the reality around it.

Unfortunately, that reality is what has become the Iraq of today. Only because our President believes that in order to bring democracy and stability, we must bring forth disorder first, then chaos, and then finally…?

A full blown civil war.

Which may have gotten started over the recent spat of bloodshed; where first a couple hundred Shiites died. The Shiite-run militias enacted revenge by setting some innocent Sunnis on fire–after they left from their daily prayers.

Yes, Bush condemned the violence from the first attack, but he won’t on the second. Because in his mind, the Shiites should be the victors and the Sunnis should be the victims this time around.

But the victims are fighting back–having organized one of the most well-funded, and well-armed insurgencies that this world has seen in a generation.

And the Shiites are paying the price for their own arrogance. (Much like Bush paid for his in the recent mid-term elections.)

But what about the Iraqi troops? Why haven’t they stopped the bloodshed? Because they are unable to.

In a recent Pentagon admission, our own troops were found to be ill-trained to carry out the task of rebuilding Iraq; let alone policing it properly–and training our Iraqi replacements at the same time.

Which leaves us where?

Caught flat-footed in this new civil war.

Of course, the military heads won’t admit it's happened. They say that the government is still there and the Iraqi army hasn't turned against it. But the collapse of the Iraqi government will take place. Because Bush made it happen. It’s what he’s wanted all along: Two imperfect and dysfunctional models of democracy.

One Iraqi. One U.S. of A.

Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1@yahoo.com

posted by Schuyler Thorpe @ 2:14 PM