Reflections on the "New American" Revolution
Friday, November 21, 2003
Bush Says Mounting U.S. Casualties Not Affecting Iraq Transition (washingtonpost.com): "President Bush believes the current phase of the war in Iraq is 'going as expected' and strongly rejects the idea that the United States is being forced to transfer sovereignty to Iraqis sooner than planned because of mounting U.S. casualties and international pressure, according to an interview published today by an Arabic newspaper in London."
How can he say that the war is going as "expected"? Does he mean that when he invaded, he expected to find no WMD, not find Saddam, lose more troops after the Iraq army disbanded than before and see the country descend into chaos after all it's institutions were looted or destroyed? Does he mean that his claims that Iraq would be able to fund it's own reconstruction, made before the war by many in his administration in testimony to Congress and in the media, was a lie, and that he expected that he would have to borrow $20 billion within a few months to fund the reconsctruction effort, and that he would simply give that money to Iraq?
Come on, you journalists, ask him. Is that what he means? Why do you report his words without examining their meaning and questioning them? What is your job? And why do you fail to do it so consistently?
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