IN IRAQ, "VIOLENCE IS DOWN," BUT ONLY, IT SEEMS, IN THE AREAS WE HAVE ABANDONED! ...Bush will find a reason to STAY

President George W. Bush's ill-advised Iraq troop "surge" has been a total failure... it was supposed to provide the SECURITY in Baghdad necessary for the Iraqi "government" to make POLITICAL PROGRESS. The only places where violence is down, it turns out, are the areas of the country our troops abandoned to concentrate on Baghdad... which clearly shows OUR PRESENCE IS NOT HELPING. The Iraqis could/would start to clean up the whole country -- AQ, terr'ists, foreign fighters, etc. -- if our troops GOT THE HELL OUT-OF-THERE! BRING 'EM HOME... THEY WON THE "IRAQ WAR" TWO OR THREE TIMES, ALREADY. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, and the IDIOTS in Washington LOST THE WAR by staying, after the mission(s) were over...Now Bush is counting the days, hoping to DUMP the MESS on the next President. ...SELFISH, MUCH ?

And now it appears that the only thing the surge has bought him is time -- nine
months or maybe a year, during which he was able to postpone the inevitable.

(A) year in Iraq translates to over 1,000 more dead American soldiers; over $100 billion more in direct appropriations; over 15,000 more dead Iraqi civilians; and countless grievous wounds and shattered families both here and there.

In light of the costs, having bought a year of time may not seem like much of an accomplishment. But if Bush can drag things out another year or so, he can wash his hands of the whole mess and leave it for his successor to deal with...

Oh, and don't forget the REFUGEE CRISIS BUSH HAS
CREATED IN THE MIDDLE-EAST:
Millions have fled their homes.
Nobody wants to live in Iraq
anymore, and who can blame 'em?

Bush/Cheney's neocon OCCUPATION OF IRAQ has been a DISASTER -- DEATH & DESTRUCTION, BASED ON LIES -- Epic incompetence; a trillion dollars; and a DISASTER to show... It was doomed-to-fail from the beginning, and that should be George W. Bush's "legacy!" Incompetent-failure, Herb.