Posted on 09/08/2003 5:22:43 AM PDT by chambley1
White House Report
By Nicholas F. Benton
Picture now the spectacle of George Bush, hat-in-hand, going begging to the same United Nations that he dismissed and turned his back on to launch his unilateral invasion of Iraq last spring.
How quickly the "worm turns." It probably won't be admitted on the record, but this is a shameless admission of failure by our president, a stunning defeat for the underlying policy that drove U.S. forces through Iraq in the first place.
It is stunning for how swiftly this defeat has come, far more quickly, in the reckoning of time on the political domain, than the U.S. forces swept through Iraq in military time. An entire decade-long effort to advance a "new American century" doctrine has gone up in smoke in a matter of two months.
The doctrine, as I and others have documented repeatedly in attempting to deter its implementation over the last year, called for the use of U.S. military aggression against Iraq as the opening salvo of a systematic "Americanization" of the globe.
Its purpose had nothing to do with the phantom "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq, but with subordinating multi-lateral institutions to the will of the Bushwhacked United States.
The whole reason for invading Iraq was to destroy the United Nations as a relevant global institution and to firmly establish that the U.S. is the sole leader of the pack henceforth.
It was a policy cooked up in the sanitized corridors of the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Project for a New American Century and other haunts of the "neo-conservative" movement that insinuated itself into Washington, D.C., during the Reagan years, and especially in the wake of the Gingrich "revolution" of 1994. The movement includes the likes of current key administration policy makers such as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Undersecretary Paul Wolfowitz. Its "new American century" policy was never tested in the real world.
Most of its prime authors have never been to Iraq. They were dubbed "chicken hawks" by their detractors within the seasoned and veteran U.S. military command: hawks because they pushed so aggressively for war, and chicken because they've never experienced the realities of war, or even sustained military service, themselves.
Yes, it's these geniuses we have to thank for the deepening chaos in Iraq, the almost-daily deadly assaults against of vulnerable U.S. forces there, the death of hundreds and the 10's of thousands of permanently-debilitating injuries suffered by our brave troops. It's these geniuses who are saddling American citizens with a dizzying $1 billion per week price tag for the occupation and, worst of all, the promise of a spiraling descent into deeper chaos and death. They're the ones we can thank for reviving the al Qaeda terrorists by giving them fresh new direct access to our painfully-exposed young.
According to the Associated Press reporting from Pakistan, al Qaeda and the Taliban "are no longer on the run and are teaming up once again, getting help from some Pakistani authorities as well as a disgruntled Afghan population fed up with lawlessness under the U.S.-backed interim administration there."
It could not be clearer that the U.S. is no longer welcome in Iraq, either, as reflected by the angry remarks from a member of the U.S.-picked governing council there in front of 400,000 Shia Muslims mourning the death of his brother and their leader Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir Hakim. As many as 120 died along with Hakim in the terrorist attack on him last week.
"The occupation force is primarily responsible for the pure blood that was spilled," the brother of the slain leader boomed before almost a half-million Iraqis. "This force is primarily responsible for all this blood and the blood that is shed all over Iraq every day. Iraq must not remain occupied and the occupation must leave."
No wonder, either, that Thomas E. White, forced by Rumsfeld to resign as Army secretary in May, unleashed this week a devastating attack on the Bush administration's incompetence and lack of preparation for the realities of a post-invasion Iraq. The result of the current occupation, he said in a press release accompanying the publication of his new book, "Reconstructing Eden," "will be a financial disaster, more lives lost, chaos in Iraq and squandered American good will."
The occupation, he said, is a "humanitarian, political and economic disaster."
I think the only "worm" turning in this story is the author, Nick "the prick" Benton.
Most of its prime authors have never been to Iraq.
And I suppose the reader is to assume that Mr. Benton has? Sounds like he does his "research" from Jennings broadcasts and DNC talking points (where he is no doubt at the top of their mailing list). I bet he looks like an effeminate Wally Cox, the perfect liberal she-man.
Didn't sound like crawling to me.
But, why let the truth get in the way of a good smear.
I'll try again later.
Me: Sir, it never rang, I was disconnected.
Old coot: Well, I'll put you through again, now wait for it to ring three times.
Me: (in my sweetest voice) Yes, sir I will, thank you.
Old coot: alright, have a nice day (grumble grumble)........
And AGAIN it disconnected me.
Go ahead and try... I dare you! LOL
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