"Educator-in-Chief" or Insane Ideologue?

Reality overwhelmingly recommends the latter appellation.

U.S. and Iraqis Are Wrangling Over War Plans
By JOHN F. BURNS
Published: January 15, 2007
This article was reported by John F. Burns, Sabrina Tavernise and Marc Santora, and written by Mr. Burns.

BAGHDAD, Jan. 14 — Just days after President Bush unveiled a new war plan calling for more than 20,000 additional American troops in Iraq, the heart of the effort — a major push to secure the capital — faces some of its fiercest resistance from the very people it depends on for success: Iraqi government officials.

American military officials have spent days huddled in meetings with Iraqi officers in a race to turn blueprints drawn up in Washington into a plan that will work on the ground in Baghdad. With the first American and Iraqi units dedicated to the plan due to be in place within weeks, time is short for setting details of what American officers view as the decisive battle of the war.

But the signs so far have unnerved some Americans working on the plan, who have described a web of problems — ranging from a contested chain of command to how to protect American troops deployed in some of Baghdad’s most dangerous districts — that some fear could hobble the effort before it begins.

First among the American concerns is a Shiite-led government that has been so dogmatic in its attitude that the Americans worry that they will be frustrated in their aim of cracking down equally on Shiite and Sunni extremists, a strategy President Bush has declared central to the plan.

“We are implementing a strategy to embolden a government that is actually part of the problem,” said an American military official in Baghdad involved in talks over the plan. “We are being played like a pawn.”

[For the rest of the "duh, you stupid hegemonic ignorami in the White House" article]

{shakin'head}

Add to that, I fell asleep during the Pats-Chargers' game last night, and woke to the faux Texas twang of President Bush ending his interview on 60 Minutes thusly -

Mr. Pelley: Final question. How can you escalate the war when so many people in this country seem to be against it?

Mr. Bush: I’m gonna have to keep explaining. That’s why I’m doing this interview with you. Scott; sometimes you’re the commander-in-chief, sometimes you’re the educator-in-chief, and a lot of times you’re both when it comes to war. And, we are in an ideological struggle. And it’s a really classic ideological struggle. And — Iraq is part of it. And it’s very important for me to not only continue to explain why I believe we can be successful in Iraq but explain to people that what happens in the Middle East will affect the future of this country.

[Bush on '60 Minutes': The Only Plan]

The Preznit is so determined to accomplish his mission in Iraq (whatever it is and regardless that he said it was already Accomplished almost 4* years ago!) that he actually appears to be living in a dream in which such can happen, regardless of the fact that his puppet government in Iraq has cut their strings and Decided upon a Course of their own.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Bushian nightmares are all too common these days.

Impeach him NOW, Congress. All your protestations of inefficacy to the contrary, this man is a deadly danger to our country and to the lives of millions around the planet.

If you don't Impeach, and do so very soon, the Congressional complicity of the 110th in the Bush Administration's crimes against the Constitution and humanity will like to match that of previous incarnations of your august institution.

Impeach Now!


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* Thanks to an anonymous commenter for pointing out that it was nearly 4 years ago that Bush claimed "Mission Accomplish", and not 3 as I had written.