Given that the recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group report were not to his liking, Bush has now sought out the counsel of academics and retired generals who have predictably advised him not to draw down troops from Iraq and to not reach out to Iraq’s neighbors. They also advised him to increase the military’s budget without explaining where the extra money would come from.
The advice given was long on the unrealistic ideals of creating a stable democracy and “defeating extremism”, while short on in depth research into the nitty gritty consequences of keeping our troops in harm’s way.
This is vintage Bush–seeking to discard any and all evidence/advice except any that bolsters his personal views. Does that sound familiar? It should–the discarding of intelligence showing no WMD’s in Iraq was what led to the confrontation in the first place. He just never learns..and his ignorance comes at the expense of the American people, the taxes they pay, and the loss of their prestige around the world.
The people spoke forcefully in November that they want a change in Iraq and they want it now. Bush refusal to listen is at his and his party’s peril, making them look exactly as deluded and out of touch as they actually are.
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