Iraq: 3 years down 3 more to go?

How Long will we be in Iraq? President Bush said today that there may still be troops in Iraq when he leaves office in three years. While Bush continues his pr tour to raise support for the war, the 2,319 American servicemember was killed in Iraq today. Bush continues to skirt the issue of withdrawal, saying "That will be decided by future presidents and future governments of Iraq."

Furthermore, the Bush administration refuses to acknowledge that a civil war is emerging in Iraq, even with more than 1,000 Iraqis killed since the bombing last month of a Shiite shrine (including 39 just yesterday). With grizzly discoveries of tortured, blindfolded corpses occurring almost daily in Iraq, former interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi declared, "If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is."

After the much touted elections in Iraq, no government has yet been formed. Despite all of the growing problems with no end in sight, Bush remains "optimistic" saying "We've got a strategy for victory, and we're making progress." Really? What exactly is our strategy in Iraq? Stay the Course?

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
--Winston Churchill

It's time for a new strategy.

posted by Sarai @ 1:16 PM