You Can’t Win An Unwinnable War

By the way, isn’t the very existence of an Iraq Study Group a tacit admission that the Bush Administration doesn’t know what the hell they’re doing in Iraq? Don’t we already have people on the government payroll to come up with military strategy and foreign policy? If they need Poppy Bush’s friends to come in and tell them how to do their jobs, then maybe we need more competent people making these decisions in the first place.

Then again, the whole Baker/Hamilton Commission is a fool’s errand anyways. It doesn’t matter how many “experts” Bushie convenes, they’ll never find a solution to a problem that can’t be solved.


posted by greg on November 14, 2006 @ 11:02 pm

5 comments »

  1. That was the first thing that occurred to me too when I read about it. There is not an actual Middle East expert among the membership of the panel. We’re letting the students set the curriculum while the teachers are relegated to an advisory role.

    Comment by moonbiter — November 15, 2006 @ 5:45 am

  2. What ever happens Bush will claim victory

    Comment by rob payne — November 15, 2006 @ 11:05 am

  3. While I agree, my favorite quote is “winning a war is like winning an earthquake” (sorry don’t remember the source)

    plus newsweeks article about how elections weren’t about W. / Iraq or the democrats. nope , all ’bout ole 41 (and his cronies). Which in a perverted way is true.

    Comment by deadmule — November 15, 2006 @ 11:31 am

  4. Maybe y’all are too young to realize this, or maybe I’m too world weary to see this any other way, but here goes. War is about MONEY. MONEY that is traded for LIVES. Other people LIVES don’t cost anything, but make you lots of MONEY. Motivate with RELIGION or you can use PATRIOTISM, just get somebody to buy a product that gets more expensive when there is less of it… and blow the shit up! If you own it (Texas oil) your shit becomes more valuable…more MONEY for your and yours! You leave your elected office, and you get all the MONEY you left in a blind trust while you were in office. All very hands-off, you see. Entirely on the up and up, as it were. Wouldn’t be cricket any other way, tut tut and all that…

    Comment by patrick — November 15, 2006 @ 11:12 pm

  5. Record oil company profits for several quarters now. Is very very good, no?

    Who says “we” are not winning?

    Comment by pooleside — November 16, 2006 @ 7:24 am

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