Former General Colin Powell blasted the Bush administration's “stay
the course” catastrophe in Iraq today.
Watch the Ware video. It's worse than we are being told.
“Only the Iraqi people can resolve this,” Powell said.
U.S. troops have to stay in Iraq for “some time,” he said. “But
there is a limit to the patience of the American people.”Powell was the featured speaker at this year's distinguished Carlson Lecture
at the University of Minnesota.In Iraq, “staying the course isn't good enough because a course has
to have an end,” Powell said. …
There is also the case of bloody
Baghdad.
According to Juan Cole, 21 U.S. soldiers
have been killed since Saturday, with 8 killed yesterday alone.
Two months after a security crackdown began in the capital, U.S. military
deaths appear to be rising, even as fatalities among Iraqi security forces
have fallen, U.S. military sources and analysts said.The U.S. military Tuesday revised to eight its count of American deaths in
the capital on Monday, the highest daily toll in a month. In September, 74
U.S. troops died nationwide, about a third of them in Baghdad, according to
the military.
It's very clear that as George W. Bush heads into categorically undeniable
lame duck status that his desire to actually do anything about Iraq will become
less and less. He's said before that he's going to hand it off to the next presidents,
plural, meaning that it will take more than two administrations to get the job
done. This puts Joe Lieberman Democrats in a difficult position, as Ned Lamont (h/t) said today.
Bob Woodward, in the middle of his book tour, has been talking about Bush inviting
Democrats in to have a serious confab about Iraq. Frankly, that seems not only
unlikely, but quite contrary to the information in State of Denial, which says
emphatically that we're heading for worse in 2007, period.
We have to do something immediately, but we can't because the Republicans control Congress. Democrats taking over in November is our only chance and our soldiers' only hope.
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