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iraq but with the public and congress victimized by intelligence failures in the lead up to iraq using gates to talk up the threat would fail to help the cause besides gates lacks powell s military credentials or star power the key issue going forward is whether or not the administration can pull back from images of its supremacist position on iraq and tone down its anti iranian rhetoric rice and cheney still persist in influencing bush who eagerly bought into the iraq war as cause celebre of his presidency seeking a legacy bush will no doubt find it difficult if not impossible to back off rosy predictions of victory bush must now realizes that the neo con advice he so eagerly swallowed could forever taint his legacy as problems in iraq fester and victory goes farther and farther out of reach distant and insulated el presidente may be preserving a state of denial over the outcome of the iraq misadventure see subsequent post rumsfeld s departure does signal a turn towards a more reasoned approach undoubtedly fostered by his father and even wife laura who had wanted rumsfeld gone yet the ability of prominent neocon dick cheney to shape policy and make bush s decisions for him appears unprecedented in history and persistent now that rumsfeld is gone cheney s position is increasingly isolated as the neocon ranks thin ever greater will the need be to insulate the president from the reality of events on the ground in iraq like some personal intervention perhaps the president s family will need to circle round him console him and tell him how cheney has affected him like some unhealthy addiction he needs to quit the hoyer pelosi issue there are two issues in nancy pelosi s ascent to the position of speaker of the house the first is the idea that pelosi suffered an internal political defeat in her choice for majority leader in jack murtha the concept is that pelosi s handle on her own party may be less firm than needed to stop the war also as a woman in a position of authority pelosi makes a juicy target for natural enemies across the aisle as well as closet masogenists anything pelosi s enemies can do to make her look more infirm or incapable of leading may play to sexist stereotypes or at the opposite end of the spectrum anything that can make pelosi look obsessive and driven typically masculine roles can paint her as the mean old witch in what will probably be a smear technique used by hillary s opponents the second issue is just how antiwar hoyer is hoyer claims to have signed similar letters endorsing a change of policy and claims to be as anti iraq war as murtha nonetheless reading from the broad range of antiwar opinion it s nearly impossible for me to believe that the hoyer election was anything but a movement away from the antiwar position that got the democrats in office a gut feeling wholly unsubstantiated at this point is the idea that most democrats will drag out the war while trying to slowing end it rather than seek immediate closure an end to the war may not bring the democrats any political gain as valuable as the ongoing political damage that iraq engenders for the republicans in other words the democrats will likely bleed the republicans and try to make them pay for their leadership on iraq now however the onus of extracting us from iraq lies with the democrats unfortunately every failure to bring the war to an end will embroil the far less tarnished democrats should a draft arise much of the anti incumbency directed towards the republicans could spill over to the new incumbents the democrats if the political majority against the war can sway the political environment as it has now with losses a fraction of vietnam who knows how strong the movement could become with a draft and a spiralling death toll as a matter of fact some in the republican party may seek to increase troop levels in order to force the democrats to start a draft as in vietnam when politicians in washington start playing games with issues like troop levels or target lists the military effort invariably plays a price more a political than military leader rumsfeld has proven wholly inadequate in hindsight his policies almost look intentionally designed to create the quagmire we now face instead of a poorly conceived plan while the right has blamed the defeat in vietnam on politics grotesquely distorting the role the vietnamese played in forcing us out they have been incapable of keeping politics out of iraq if the us were able to convince its population based purely on reason and military justification people might consider escalation but no government has been able to justify or perpetuate endless war therefore sooner or later practical methods to end war must be evoked so few wars really do end with a positive or even productive outcome for either participant if enough people have died enough needless damage been wreaked and precious little fundamentally changed the end is in itself the achievement accepting that war so rarely solves any problems appears to be too difficult for the militarists in the bush junta even as the clear limitations that their policies have created are exposed cheney rice and bush frame victory as a simple matter of commitment this distortion revolves around hubris as if the outcome of external events revolves around washington rather than being shaped by realities on the ground abroad lesson unlearned in his trip to vietnam bush made the woefully ignorant statement that we ll succeed unless we quit this indicates he 1 believes the cause was worth continuing and 2 the vietnamese weren t winning and that the us was on a course towards victory it s truly shameful no one in bush s circle will point out the inherent falsehoods in the president s ignorant statement just as no one would tell the emperor he wore no clothes see the well crafted hans christian anderson fable here on monday the 20th keith olbermann launched into an impressive tirade over bush s vietnam comment i strongly recommend watching it here norm solomon has a sense of deja vu concerning the reluctance of american government to get out he can cite from memory examples of media and government excuses for continuing the war in vietnam how much similiar they are today in norm solomon s book war made easy in response to the premise that withdrawal would cripple u s credibility solomon sums up one article in time debating an exit from iraq the most that could be hoped for was that some kind of elected iraqi government would eventually emerge at which time the united states could conceivably manage to reduce its troop level in iraq significantly although even that vague hope necessitated a commitment of at least several more months of americans killing and dying but in several more months predictably there would still be no end in sight just another blank check for more blood and treasure on the installment plan source solomon cites a wall street journal poll all the way back from 2004 which indicated 1 4 of americans favored an immediate pullout and 30 more wanted one within 18 months the total favoring pullout now or in the near future appears to be largely unchanged i was unable to trace the cnn poll i mentioned in my last post i d been seeking current polling detailing popular support for a pull out trolling through cnn s site in the transcript for november 13th candy crowley does come through in exit polls this year only 17 percent of voters said they wanted to send more troops twenty one percent wanted to hold at current levels fifty five percent wanted to withdraw some or all u s troops from iraq source about 1 6th the way down the 55 or so of americans who want us out now or in the short term appears quite persistent so exiting troops from iraq is clearly the position of a majority of americans and has been that way for more than 2 years the delay is significant as the death rolls rise with no end in sight judging from vietnam the costs of delay are substantial contrary to myths about media coverage of the vietnam war the american press lagged way behind grassroots anti war sentiment in seriously contemplating a us pullout from vietnam the lag time amounted to several years and meant the additional deaths of tens of thousands of americans and perhaps 1 million more vietnamese people source i was able to find this zogby poll of american troops serving in iraq taken jan feb 2006 no one is in a better position to evaluate firsthand what is going on in iraq and judge the future results than our troops over there at that time a stong majority 72 thought the us should exit from iraq within the next year media the absence of mainstream media support for ending the war has delayed our departure solomon describes misperceptions about withdrawal as common now as they had been in vietnam whether in 1968 or 2006 most of the washington press corps has been at pains to portray withdrawal of us troops as impractical and unrealistic source personalities like keith olbermann may complain quite forcefully but many editors take a conservative approach to questioning administration policies why would they risk losing their jobs massive conglomerates control the heavily consolidated media industry many are run by supporters of the war what are broadly percieved as liberal bastions simply aren t the new york times has failed to editorialize against the war what s more the paper of record has directly supported a continuance of the occupation by failing to control their star reporter judith miller a stream of unsubstantiated rumour about iraqi wmd wormed its way to the front of the paper in a new article the new media offensive for the iraq war solomon accuses nyt reporter michael gordon of flagrant bias gordon appeared hours later on anderson cooper s cnn show fully morphing into an unabashed pundit as he declared that withdrawal is simply not realistic sounding much like a pentagon spokesman gordon went on to state in no uncertain terms that he opposes a pullout if a new york times military affairs reporter went on television to advocate for withdrawal of us troops as unequivocally as gordon advocated against any such withdrawal during his november 15 appearance on cnn he or she would be quickly reprimanded and probably would be taken off the beat by the times hierarchy but the paper s news department eagerly fosters reporting that internalizes and promotes the basic worldviews of the country s national security state that s how and why the times front page was so hospitable to the work of judith miller during the lead up to the invasion of iraq that s how and why the times is now so hospitable to the work of michael gordon source the nyt is not alone according to solomon in 2004 the wall street journal editorial writers were fervently promoting a war on terrorism version of what used to be called the domino theory that theory insisted that a u s defeat in vietnam would set the dominos falling through southeast asia until the entire region and beyond went communist the day after the united nations baghdad headquarters blew up in august 2003 the wall street journal closed its latest gung ho editorial by touting a quote from general john abizaid if we can t be successful here then we won t be successful in the global war on terror it is going to be hard it is going to be long and sometimes bloody but we just have to stick with t source as above and why do we have to stick with it is the return on our investment improving or yielding less and less will the additional investment in lives and money be justified by an appreciably greater end result we ve often heard iraq described as the central battlefront in the war on terror if we are losing in iraq we are losing the war on terror this fact may far harder to confront than pretending we can still win in iraq and therefore win against terror who controls foreign policy on cnn s situation room november 16 the hill s ab stoddard and wolf blitzer had an exchange in which stoddard said that the president controls foreign policy and that the only direct method for stopping the war available to congress was stopping the flow of funds which stoddard claimed was a move congress was not willing to make that option aside stoddard said the most congress could do was to apply political pressure on the white house i couldn t help but think there had to be some way some law some step congress could do but regrettably couldn t think of one besides stoddard was a washington insider someone who clearly knew what she was talking about then in the course of my news following i came upon the new media offensive for the iraq war by norm solomon in it solomon describes an exchange concerning this point early in vietnam the show s host on that 1964 telecast was the widely esteemed journalist peter lisagor who told his guest senator the constitution gives to the president of the united states the sole responsibility for the conduct of foreign policy couldn t be more wrong senator wayne morse broke in with his sandpapery voice you couldn t make a more unsound legal statement than the one you have just made this is the promulgation of an old fallacy that foreign policy belongs to the president of the united states that s nonsense lisagor was almost taunting as he asked to whom does it belong then senator morse did not miss a beat it belongs to the american people he shot back and i am pleading that the american people be given the facts about foreign policy the journalist persisted you know senator that the american people cannot formulate and execute foreign policy morse s response was indignant why do you say that i have complete faith in the ability of the american people to follow the facts if you ll give them and my charge against my government is we re not giving the american people the facts source touche also on cnn november 13th congressional correspondent dana bash said of withdrawal even with the new reins of power congressional democrats are limited in how much they can change u s policy in iraq since the president is commander in chief congress could force troops to come home by cutting off funding but democrats say that s off the table a political nonstarter which would harm service men and women source it s not hard to say what harms our troops more putting them in harm s way to marginal effect burdening their families with endless service and endless worry or getting them out of harm s way cutting funding may be the only way that the congress can stop the war for the democrats to continue to fund the war would actually be denying the popular political mandate against the war the democrat s victory entitles and obligates them to end the war by any means possible if bush cannot remove our troops from iraq the responsibility falls to congress if they fail in that responsibility the lives of many more american soldiers and iraqi civilians will be needlessly lost having done nothing to alter the inevitable outcome 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