Before It's Too Late in Iraq

I always liked Wes Clark, I thought his military experience would give him the credibility to send Bush back to Crawford in the 2004 election. Instead we wound up with the very vulnerable John Kerry ("I voted for the war before I voted against it") as the Democratic nominee.

Here, General Clark chimes in on the bubbling quagmire President "Mission Accomplished" has gotten us into, and articulates a comprehensive approach to making it all better.

It's hard to argue with his initial premise:

"More than half the American people now believe that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake. They're right. But it would also be a mistake to pull out now, or to start pulling out or to set a date certain for pulling out. Instead we need a strategy to create a stable, democratizing and peaceful state in Iraq -- a strategy the administration has failed to develop and articulate."

That's pretty much how I feel about the whole situation: starting the war was a mistake of epic proportions, but we just can't turn our backs on the fuck-up now. But it is going to take more than simplistic rhetoric delivered before hand-picked audiences to fix the mess.

And it is for sure going to take more thought than W's current line, which simply stated now amounts to "the killing and death must continue in order to justify the killing and death we and the Iraqi people have endured so far."

President Bush, let me introduce you to General Clark:

Link: Before It's Too Late in Iraq.

Comments

[Alex]

Interesting article and discussion, on the topic of Iraq, at:
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002316.html