While the American death toll increases, (3706 Americans: ICasualties) President Bush hopes to dump the Iraq disaster into the lap of the next President of the United States. When that happens, the Republicans will blame the entire Iraq disaster on the next administration. How convenient!
The British also think it is time to leave Iraq. The Independent:
Sir Menzies Campbell has backed calls by military chiefs for British forces to pull out of Iraq because they can "achieve nothing" by staying.....
....."What is being achieved by the continuing British presence in Iraq?" Sir Menzies asked in the letter to the Prime Minister. "There is now a clear recognition that the objectives of their mission cannot be achieved."
The pressure on Mr Brown increased yesterday with the disclosure in The Independent on Sunday that senior military commanders have told the Government that Britain can achieve "nothing more" in Basra, the British sector in southern Iraq which has seen a sharp rise in insurgent attacks over the past year.....
*** The mining tragedy in Utah is a disaster for the victims' families. Their expectations for a rescue were unfairly raised by a media-seeking mine owner and a head of mine safety who is unqualified for his position. Will the families and the public ever find out the truth? Will the mine owner receive blame for his methods of operating his mines? The appointment of Stickler by the President during a congressional recess was done because Stickler was considered another "heck of a job, Brownie" appointment.**** Is the Republican party preparing for a major disaster in the 2008 election? Is that why Rove, Pryce, Hastert, Snow, Pickering and others are heading into retirement? Here is a snippet from Independent.ie:
....The growing exodus has intensified Republican fears that as the Bush presidency ends mired in Iraq, the party faces further losses in the House and Senate next year, a Democrat victory in the presidential race and an era of internecine bloodletting.
Although a Democrat White House victory is far from assured, by every measure, the Republican Party is in trouble.
Recent polls show that compared with 2002, when America was split evenly over party identification, now only 35pc call themselves Republican -- whereas 50pc say that they are Democrat.....
> Why has the Bush administration and the supporting Republican cast provided us with so many disasters like Iraq, Katrina, the cleanup of NYC's Ground Zero site, the failure to locate Osama, the unfunded No Child Left Behind, etc., etc.? Can their right wing, neo-con agenda be diagnosed as a complete failure? I think so.
