"Nice Try"

This is the first sentence in this Washington Post news story whereby Dubya grudgingly, haltingly, and with a great deal of difficulty, appeared to acknowledge the reality in Iraq for the firs time.

President Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the United States is not winning the war in Iraq and said he plans to expand the overall size of the "stressed" U.S. armed forces to meet the challenges of a long-term global struggle against terrorists.

Oh, but didn't that French-sounding, $150-haircut-buying John Kerry propose something that sounds a lot like that in 2004? But we can't possibly give him credit for that, can we now?

The story doesn’t say that Dubya wants to “expand” the size of the military (and how the hell does he plan to do that without a draft, and there is NO WAY Congress will allow that to happen) to “meet the challenges of a long-term struggle in Iraq.”

No, it says “meet the challenges of a long-term global struggle against terrorists.”

And as far as I’m concerned, you can substitute “a long-term global struggle against terrorists” for “Iran” (a proposed military buildup is noted here) which is ridiculous for many reasons, one of which is because AhMADinejad is slowly losing whatever power he has in that country.

Oh, and besides Iran, let’s not forget these guys too.

Others smarter than I have noted that, among the many reasons why Dubya should have absolutely no more military personnel to abuse in this colossal blunder of his, is that he might use them instead to carry out aggression elsewhere, such as that which I noted a minute ago.

And it’s interesting to me how this note appears on the “teaser” on CNN’s site but not again in the story (gee, I wonder if Bush’s quote will just conveniently disappear altogether shortly?).

Bush sidestepped a question about whether he would order a so-called surge of troops in Iraq to help control the violence. "Nice try," he told a reporter who asked about his plans.

We should put that quote along with Dubya’s picture on the grave markers of every one of our people killed in this unholy enterprise from this point forward, including Marine Maj. Megan McClung (not to dishonor their sacrifice, God knows, but just to remind everyone who is responsible for their deaths).