Dr. Forbush Thinks

No one likes what is going on in Iraq. The soldiers have been telling us that they feel like they are out of control. They have their own ideas of how to solve these problems, but they don’t have the authority to do what needs to be done.

The Department of Defense has been at odds with former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for years now, and the new Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has told the Congress that he knows that we are not winning in Iraq. (We aren’t losing either. Don’t get confused. We aren’t winning and we aren’t losing. That is important to understand. Gates will fit into the administration nicely.)

Regardless of what the White House says, they really do care about polls. They care about the polls that are conducted on Election Day. And they didn’t do that well this time around. They understand that Karl Rove was not responsible for the election loss, even if he was responsible for the Republican Party election plan. He has told us that the Republicans didn’t lose as many seats as they would have if he wasn’t driving the bus. (Well, he didn’t really say that, but being the arrogant person that he is he would have said it if he had thought about the situation.) The problem everyone agrees is the War in Iraq.

The Republican Party doesn’t like the effect of the War dragging them down. Many Republicans have come out against the current conduct of the war.

These, of course, are just the people connected with the US government. The American people have continued to voice their opposition to the war. Our European allies, aside from Great Britain, have been opposed to the war for years now. The actual Iraqi people that we are supposedly there to help have said with an 80% majority that we should go home. Maybe some people in the Iraqi government don’t want to be stoned to death, so they appreciate the protection of the American forces around the “Green Zone” in Baghdad.

Even though there are multiple recordings of President George W Bush saying that we are going to “Stay the Course” in Iraq, he has told us recently that he never said that. Of course, after the biased mainstream media played back the excerpts from his speeches he stopped lying about that. But, for him to recant on that famous line means that even “Stay the Course George” is beginning to realize that there is a problem in Iraq.

So, now that everyone has finally come to the agreement that there is a problem in Iraq, even if it should have been realized before we even went there; we need to take some action. But, it is not completely clear to everyone what that action should be. Some people have said that we need to increase how fast we give authority and security to the Iraqis. Some people have said that we need to increase our control over the situation before we hand over authority and security to the Iraqis.

Basically, everyone knows where we are going. And, everyone agrees where we are. So, the question is only how do. We get to where we know we are going. What is the best way to hand over authority and security to the Iraqis?

This seems to be obvious, but it turns out that know one knows the best way to do this. No one wants to admit that there is no “good” way forward. No matter what way we try to go forward there is only pain and suffering to be seen. We will only see more soldiers die and more money wasted on this adventure. The only result that we will end up with will be the Iraqis with control of their country. The only way that stability will happen is when the government either falls to the Iraqi sectarians or the government is able to please everyone. What do you think the obvious outcome will be?








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