Bush's New Exit Strategy
'We Left Vietnam Too Soon'
It seems el presidente needs to get a third shoe fitted for his mouth.
When will this buffoon learn to quit while he's ahead?
US president George W. Bush comes under bitter criticism from key members of the Democratic Party for his comparison between Iraq and Vietnam.Earlier Wednesday, Bush told those attending the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City, Missouri, "One unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America's withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens."
The leader of the Senate, Harry Reid, dismissed the analogy and said the decision to invade Iraq was one of the worst blunders in US history.
Democratic US presidential hopeful Joe Biden was sharply critical of Bush's comment, saying, "He (Bush) said we left Vietnam too soon. I don't know what planet he was on.''
"I predict if we continue down President Bush's path, we are going to see the repeat of helicopters over the top of the embassy with people hanging on the ladders trying to get out,'' he said.
Another democratic Senator who disagreed with Bush was John Kerry. He described Bush's speech as irresponsible and ignorant.
What's new?
Also, other American figures blamed the US president for drawing the parallel between the two countries.
Retired US Brigadier General John Johns, an expert on counter-insurgency who served in Vietnam, said Bush was "cherry-picking" history to support his case for staying the course in Iraq.
"What I learned in Vietnam is that US forces could not conduct a counter-insurgency operation. The longer we stay there, the worse it's going to get," he noted.
I believe the Iraq invasion is a stunning success in terms of the real goals of the Cheney administration.
They told the American sheeple that the U.S. military was going to topple the tyrant and turn the grateful Iraqis into democratic little consumers of goods and services. That's the lies they feed the brain dead, TV led American flock.
The real goal was to first weaken the Iraqis, then create chaos - a chaos that would lead to a failed state where they could be systematically eliminated and a great theft could take place.
Under the cover of that chaos, I believe that the great untapped northern oilfield of the Kirkuk area - the last great reserve of almost artisian light crude on the planet - is being stolen. I believe that a tunneled pipeline and cavern drilling area are being built to pipe the oil to a miraculous discovery that "Zion" Oil and Gas will announce.
I've talked to miners about tunnel boring technology and they say it is feasible. Difficult and expensive, but feasible. Under the cover of chaos, anything is possible. An above ground pipeline could never be defended without a total genocide of the population.
The crude will then be refined in Haifa, the new Rotterdam of the Mediterranean, and sold into the lucrative and stable Euro market via the shortest route. Maximum profit for everybody, except the poor Iraqis!
I know all this sounds mad, but that's my theory and I'm sticking to it.
Such an underground corridor would also be used to steal unlimited quantities of that other commodity that is so rare and precious in the Levant - H2O.
Look for more chaos in the region of the great northern oilfield when the Saddam dam on the Tigris "fails". How convenient.