President Bush today detailed his Iraq strategy and released an accompanying document ("National Strategy for Victory in Iraq").
Setting aside, for a moment, the fact that The War was a bad idea from the outset (as is any war, in this day and age), shouldn't The Strategy be articulated beforehand?
Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wis) said, among other things, that "the Iraqi people need to know without any doubt that we do not intend to stay in that country indefinitely."
I think that statement might be either ill-informed or disengenuous.
The US Air Force’s senior officer, Gen. John Jumper, stated US warplanes would remain in Iraq to fight resistance forces and protect the American-installed regime "more or less indefinitely."
Gen. Jumper let the cat out of the bag. While President George Bush hints at eventual troop withdrawals, the Pentagon is busy building four major, permanent air bases in Iraq that will require heavy infantry protection.
The above two paragraphs are written by Eric Margolis and sourced from Lew Rockwell.
Meanwhile, when I search Google News for "torture" and "Bush," I see a headlines that say "U.S. does not torture, Bush says."
And I see something completely different when I change "Bush" to "Cheney" and rerun the search.
It is beyond me that we are having this conversation in the United States of America.
