JAMES KUNSTLER: What On Earth Does George W. Bush Mean By Victory?

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by James Kunstler -- Clusterfuck Nation

What on earth does George W. Bush mean by victory? To remake Iraq in the image of Indiana?

I suppose I am the 1,289,654th observer to note that the president does a poor job of articulating the goal of our military venture over there -- which is to defend our access to the oil of the Middle East.

Incessantly flogging the word freedom the past three years was probably his biggest mistake. It would have been more precise, modest, and useful to say that we were supporting elections under a new constitution (written with our assistance) because the alternative would be to just appoint a bunch of guys we liked to be a government -- and that government would have had no legitimacy among the Iraqi people, not to mention the bawling of world opinion against it (and us). So, of course, elections were a necessity, and the policing required to make that happen has been an ugly struggle.

Otherwise, the most conspicuous freedom in Iraq, for most Iraqis, the past three years has been freedom from reliable electrical service.

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1. By Victory, he means that he comes out smelling like roses in the end.

and good luck with that one, pal.

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2. Well, Mr. Kunstler isn't the only one

who's asking that question.

What does Bush mean, Victory? What does he mean by complete victory? Complete versus Half-victory? Bush never says. We're all left to our own devices, to try to figure out why we are hemorrhaging about $4.9 billion dollars per month, and about 2 U.S. troops per day.

Cuz he just doesn't elaborate.