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The President's plan II
Yesterday, William Polk and George McGovern spoke about their book - "Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now" (http://www.amazon.com/Out-Iraq-Practical-Plan-Withdrawal/dp/1416534563). They were overwhelmingly erudite and brilliantly clear about the failures of the plan and recent past plans.

The element of their statements that most plainly stands out is that foreign troops have never once in history been able to stop the sort of war that's now going on in Iraq. Insurgents fight (and always have) to remove the foreigners. We did it here and that's now called The Revolution.

The prediction they made based on analysis of insurgent war is that after an occupying force leaves, the insurgency collapses because the people who have participated in and supported it are too tight to continue fighting. They turn their attention to building a future, which is precisely what Bush is always claiming he hopes for.

Instead, we have a plan from a demonstrably out-of-touch, delusionally power-mad, foolish martinet whose foreign policy is devoid of diplomacy and seems to be a mixture of vendetta and wanna-be war profiteering. Bush has sold our nation's future in the form of debt to China and weakened our military on a war that's daily compared to Vietnam.

And his "new" plan, in my opinion, can be summarized thusly:



"The desert has dried up more blood than you could think of."
~ Auda abu Tayi as portrayed by Anthony Quinn in "Lawrence of Arabia"