Bush Dawdles for a Reason

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Subject: Bush Dawdles for a Reason
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:45:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Matthew Rothschild <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: Matthew Rothschild <[e-mail]>
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Dear Friend:
It's hard keeping up with the pace of the news these days, isn't it? And it's not a lot of fun.

Every morning when I wake up, there is a new horror.

Like you, I'm thoroughly disgusted with Bush, especially for his reckless war, which he seems intent on escalating, even as he stalls for time. Here's my take: "Bush Dawdles for a Reason."

http://progressive.org/mag_wx121306

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Sincerely,

Matthew Rothschild

Matthew Rothschild
Editor, The Progressive




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[Kolesar]

1. He's trying to fashion a message to use to beat up his opponents...eom

[opihimoimoi]

2. Looking for HIS way out ....when there is none....

He doesn't know...and we ain't tellin either...fuck, let him drown in his pig shit...

[The Count]

3. Don't do today what you can leave for tomorrow. Leave it for a day after tomorrow

maybe it won't be needed to be done after all...

[kenny blankenship]

4. The comments section makes me fear for this country's future

are these TNR readers or just brownshirts assigned to TNR to "mind" what goes on there?
I've never seen so many people with mass murder and political violence so clearly on their minds anywhere but at Freerepublic (or a similar level of RW fever pit) ...and this during a Holiday season and all.

[Eurobabe]

5. Now he's the Dawdling DECIDER in Charge

Pffffffffffffffffft.

[Pragmatic Pilgrim]

6. No, he & McCain are conspiring on a "send-more-troops" plan

We gotta understand that this president who has spent his entire tenure campaigning toward the next election is now campaigning toward '08, which means building up McCain's candidacy.

That's why I think it's no coincidence that Bush has postponed his Iraq announcement (while making sure to speak favorably of suggestions to infuse more troops for a temporary "blitzkreig")just when McCain is visiting Iraq and reporting that we need more troops there.

They're probably collaborating again, as they did when McCain went through the pretext of dressing-down Bush (in a private meeting) about the Military Commission Act. You'll recall that McCain left the meeting having "won" a couple very minor changes from Bush. It cost Bush nothing, but helped McCain polish his fake image of "independence." I'm sure they spent the entire meeting chuckling about their charade.

Now Bush is getting ready to anoint McCain's recommendation about Iraq as "the best advice" he's heard, and I'm betting it'll become Bush's new plan. The Right Wing think-tanks are already hitting the talk-show circuit to make that same send-more-troops pitch. (A guy from the American Enterprise Institute was talking it up on NPR today.) The number of additional troops they recommend usually hovers around 40,000, of which half would be new troops and half would be created by extending duty-tours of troops already there.

The fact that this strategy flies into the face of public opinion makes it even more attractive to Bush & McCain. It lets Bush give the finger to the ISG--as he very much wants to do--while letting McCain look (again) like a thoughtful maverick who follows his own path rather than following the polls.

Frankly, sending enough extra troops to blanket all the hot-spots in Iraq is not that bad an idea--although three years late, like all Bush's Iraq "planning"--and will probably be marketable to the public. The trouble is, if it fails we could suffer a really humiliating defeat in Iraq, with a frantic retreat under fire that could look worse than our stampede out of Vietnam.

But there's no question in my mind that Bush intends to send more troops, and that it's at least partly a strategy to help McCain's candidacy in '08.