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BUSH SUMMIT REVEALS EVEN MORE PROBLEMS FOR IRAQ’S FUTURE

By Schuyler Thorpe
Author and Political Activist

I dunno here.

I was hoping for some kind of change upon the leaked report from the Iraq Study Group (ISG), before the Iraq summit got started (then aborted), then only settled on for as a brief “interview”.

But from all accounts, Bush is still trying to “stay the course” no matter what befalls our troops.

However, it goes much deeper than one man’s stubborn persistence in the face of a growing civil war. (Notice that Mr. Steve Hadley’s comments on this idea were: “Iraq has entered a new phase”. Not a civil war. Clearly, the administration has yet to embrace the reality that Iraq is truly sunk into a civil war–one that got its start after the February 2006 bombing of a Shiite shrine in Iraq.)

Iraq is truly in chaos. And to simply embrace another man (who surprisingly share’s many of Bush’s delusional characteristics about how “swell” things are going in that country) by full supporting him regardless of the fact, is beyond shocking.

Bush has essentially told American voters to do what Cheney instructed Senator Patrick Leahy to go ahead with not to long ago. And that's to: “Go fudge yourself!”

Does it stop there? No.

Now, Bush is giving conflicting signals on what to do next in Iraq. First he tells us that we will stay until the job is done and now he says that we will only be there for as long as the Iraqi government wants us.

Which is it, Mr. President? What do you want us to do? Stay or go?

But Bush’s troubles are just beginning. The Iraqi government may not be around much longer–given how Malaki is facing a clear revolt within his own Shiite-run party. Because of the Bush summit, many Shiites and some Sunnis have boycotted Parliament (perhaps for good–based on some reports), and six of his own Cabinet members have also resigned under protest–citing that Malaki is simply too weak to do anything about the conflict tearing Iraq apart at the seams.

Curiously enough, Malaki seems to mirror Bush’s own dysfunctional behavior. He believes (like Bush does) that things will only get better once American forces turn over security matters to the Iraqi people.

Oddly enough, the people don’t want security, they want a functional government!

So even if the ISG recommends a withdrawal for American troops (latest reports place it by 2008–when the next Presidential elections take place. Coincidence? No. This date was set for a reason. To placate the voters to think that the government was finally getting on the ball, but reality on the ground has proven the Bush administration wrong time and again.), it may not happen.

The situation in Iraq is threatening to ignite the entire Middle East into a fiery cauldron of endless conflict. And not just the three civil wars which Saudi’s king had so eloquently pointed out.

And where would this place Bush if it were to happen?

Without an exit strategy that’s for sure!

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 @ 3:40 PM