The PNAC/BushCo Failure in Iraq is Now Complete

Well, first we were told that we had to invade Iraq because Saddam's stockpile of WMD directly threatened the security of the United States. That turned out to be a lie. We were also told that Saddam was directly involved in the 9-11 attacks. That also turned out to be a lie (a lie that Bush surrogates continue to tell).

So what did the Bush Administration fall back on to justify the invasion? Bush really started pushing the idea that we invaded Iraq in order to free a population from the grip of an evil dictator. That rationale, although ridiculous on its face, was quickly embraced by the radical right as the "real" reason for our invasion. Bush also whipped out the old PNAC rationale that an invasion of Iraq would ultimately cause a wave of democracy to spread over the Middle East.

Now we get this:

"The United States no longer expects to see a model new democracy, a self-supporting oil industry or a society where the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges, U.S. officials say."

The article continues:

"What we expected to achieve was never realistic given the timetable or what unfolded on the ground," said a senior official involved in policy since the 2003 invasion. "We are in a process of absorbing the factors of the situation we're in and shedding the unreality that dominated at the beginning."

Well, at least these idiots finally figured a few things out. You know, everything would be ok as long as the goal of the Iraq Invasion was to replace the secular Saddam with a pro-Iranian government run by a bunch of religious fanatics, or to establish the Mother of All Terrorist Breeding Grounds, because that is precisely what the U.S. invasion of Iraq accomplished. But I looked over the list of 28 or so reasons why the Bush Regime said it invaded Iraq, and those goals were never mentioned.

I think what is happening here is that BushCo is setting the stage for a withdrawal of American troops that will occur during the run-up the the U.S. mid-term elections, probably next summer (don't you just love how Amerika's foreign policy is based, not on common sense, but on the U.S. election cycle?). What will then happen is basically a repeat of what BushCo did before the 2002 mid-terms, namely, they will force an October 2006 vote in Congress to authorize an invasion of a Middle Eastern country, this time Iran. I thought such a strategy would be out of the question until I realized that an invasion of Iran would be precisely the wrong thing to do, so now I'm sure that Bush will do it. Doing precisely the wrong thing is the one thing he is really good at.