Iraq - Descent into Civil War?
Well, President Bush is trying to maintain a positive spin on the situation in Iraq. This is becoming increasingly more difficult to do. The press is running this morning with a highly classified intel document that was presented to the President outlining various possible outcomes of the Iraq situation. None of them optimistic. These possibilties include maybe even civil war. Consider this quote by a Republican Senator in an election year:
"It's beyond pitiful, it's beyond embarrassing, it's now in the zone of dangerous," said Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., referring to figures showing only about 6 percent of the reconstruction money approved by Congress last year has been spent.
Hagel, Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and other committee members have long argued — even before the war — that administration plans for rebuilding Iraq were inadequate and based on overly optimistic assumptions that Americans would be greeted as liberators.
But the criticism from the panel's top Republicans had an extra sting coming less than seven weeks before the U.S. presidential election in which Bush's handling of the war is a top issue.
"Our committee heard blindly optimistic people from the administration prior to the war and people outside the administration — what I call the 'dancing in the street crowd' — that we just simply will be greeted with open arms," Lugar said. "The nonsense of all of that is apparent. The lack of planning is apparent."
The full story is available on the yahoo.com news section this morning and I'm assuming other outlets (maybe not FOX news).
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040916/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq&cid=542&ncid=716
"It's beyond pitiful, it's beyond embarrassing, it's now in the zone of dangerous," said Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., referring to figures showing only about 6 percent of the reconstruction money approved by Congress last year has been spent.
Hagel, Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and other committee members have long argued — even before the war — that administration plans for rebuilding Iraq were inadequate and based on overly optimistic assumptions that Americans would be greeted as liberators.
But the criticism from the panel's top Republicans had an extra sting coming less than seven weeks before the U.S. presidential election in which Bush's handling of the war is a top issue.
"Our committee heard blindly optimistic people from the administration prior to the war and people outside the administration — what I call the 'dancing in the street crowd' — that we just simply will be greeted with open arms," Lugar said. "The nonsense of all of that is apparent. The lack of planning is apparent."
The full story is available on the yahoo.com news section this morning and I'm assuming other outlets (maybe not FOX news).
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040916/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq&cid=542&ncid=716
posted by Big Scott | 5:31 AM
1 Comments:
I agree. This war is getting more and more out of hand. I think that for the most part we are viewed as liberators, and the people there are appreciative as time goes by. However, more and more Americans are dying, and things seem to be getting worse in many parts of the country, not better. As Han Solo once said, "I don't know how we're gonna get out of this one."
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