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BUSH’S DESPERATION IS BECOMING CLEAR

By Schuyler Thorpe
Author and Political Activist

In an effort to paint Iraq the central war on terror, Bush rushed to declassify information that the American public had known since this war on Iraq began: That Osama bin Laden is going to use Iraq as the central staging point for his attacks.

Does W think we are stupid?

That one day we would wake up and say, “Hey! You’re right! We should stay in Iraq until the job is done?”

I think not!

The sad fact is, is that Iraq wasn’t the central stage in our terror war. That was Afghanistan.

We should’ve stayed there.

But we didn’t. Or rather Bush didn’t. Bush made the rash assumption that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and rushed in to overthrow Saddam–by taking his eyes off Osama at Tora Bora for a split second.

And in that split second, Bush blinked, and Osama escaped. The bulk of his leadership escaped, while a great many of his followers were killed in the ensuing US invasion.

After toppling Saddam’s government, Bush inadvertently created a vacuum in which the insurgency and groups like Al-Qaeda could fill with splintered-association groups, and keep the American-led coalition hopelessly pinned down through constant fighting.

And it’s worked.

Now, Bush is desperately trying to paint this war as the central war on terror–desperate to regain whatever support he still has left to him.

Like he’s done in the past when things have gone south in Iraq. And they have.

But no matter what, neither Bush or any future President can fight what’s begun.

By shifting the war to Iraq–instead of Afghanistan–we’ve created a nightmare scenario that could’ve only come from a fictionalized movie.

And with each passing day, we are paying for it in both blood and treasure.

All because Bush wanted Iraq for his very own.

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

Labels: Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Bush, civil war, desperation, insurgency, Iraq, Saddam, Tora Bora

posted by Schuyler Thorpe @ 2:06 PM