Such bright contradictions were on display in Bush’s latest strategically bankrupt “plan” for victory: spending $3.3 billion to fight the improvised explosive devices(IEDs) that Bush now claims Iran is smuggling into Iraq — to the very Shiite forces that won the U.S.-engineered election and are positioned to form the first real post-Hussein government. The IEDs, mentioned a whopping 26 times in the president’s speech, have obviously come to replace that nonexistent WMD threat as the centerpiece of Bush’s Iraq policy. We will stop them, he says, by bumping anti-IED-related spending by a factor of 22, from $150 million in 2004 to $3.3 billion. “We’re putting the best minds in America to work on this effort,” Bush said.
Why not put a few of them to work on figuring how to extract the U.S. military from Iraq instead? After all, that is where all the IEDs happen to be exploding.
I posted earlier about Bush's new WMD threat, the IEDs, and how he's trying to connect them to Iran, much like he did with the 9/11-Saddam Hussein-Iraq-AlQeada thread. 26 times he mentioned the IEDs. Talk about slinging the propaganda!
The polls may be down for the big guy, and this time around, the American public will have to factor the "where have I heard that story before" into their thinking, but I am not of a mind to think that this will matter to our goverment currently in power. After all, it's clear that the majority of our elected representatives (and that includes those nasty DINO's) vote the corporate way, not the constituents' way.
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