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Iraq Strategy |
 Why is George Bush laughing? Well, it's not because he didn't wet himself during that carrier landing. No, it's because nobody yet had figured out his secret Iraq strategy. (See Below) |
French newspaper reveals
method in Bush madness
By KENNETH DREYFACK
of TheColumnists.com
Now that the cat is out of the bag, senior officials at the White House are on edge and State Department policy specialists have gone onto red alert. Even though the revelation spells danger for U.S. foreign policy, I, for one, am glad that the cloak of silence finally has been removed from George W. Bush’s Iraq strategy. I am sick and tired of hearing people in general and fair weather patriots in particular wonder aloud about the President’s vision and wisdom.
The strategic beans were spilled this week by France’s well-informed weekly paper, Le Canard Enchainé. Le Canard deserves a Pulitzer Prize for having figured out what John Kerry, the Democratic party and, indeed, most of the civilized world have been unable to discern: namely, that the current mess in Iraq is intentional. Yes, George W. Bush, the man some suggest is a mere puppet at the end of sinister neocon strings, planned it all.
Render unto George his due: It is now clear that the President has always understood that, once the B52s returned to their bases, the fundamental problem in Iraq would be the age old animosity between the country’s three major ethno-religious groups: the Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. As they weaseled out of joining the US mission, the French and Germans even justified their self-serving cowardice by saying that rivalries among the three groups would inevitably lead to chaos in the aftermath of a US invasion.
Today, the faces of all those who doubted George W. Bush’s mastery of the situation are covered with Mesopotamian mud. In a veritable stroke of genius, the U.S. President managed to do what everyone said was impossible: he has unified the Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. After hundreds of years of tribal warfare and savage infighting, the traditional archrivals have joined forces against a common enemy--the U.S.
Now, in a flash, we can understand why Bush has been unwilling to expose a clear, cogent strategy for Iraq. One word from the President suggesting that he was behind it all, and the three Iraqi belligerents risk turning their gunsights away from the G.I.s and back towards each other. Selflessly, stolidly, Bush has taken the heat, knowing that in the long run, history would prove him right.
In the meantime, slowly but surely, day-by-day, ambush-by-ambush, Iraqi national pride and spirit grow stronger. Already, people from other regions are rushing to Falluja. Soon Iraqis of all ethnic origins and religious beliefs will join arms in a united explosion of national pride and liberation.
He may have assumed the
job with some reluctance, but in Iraq, George W. Bush has taken
the task of nation building to new heights. A fitting endeavor
in the cradle of civilization.
©2004 by Kenneth Dreyfack.
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