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To: sea_urchin who wrote (17745)	3/30/2003 2:15:29 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81140

> no question that Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz & Co have comprehensively screwed up --- but so what --- they still can't lose. Others don't feel that way. counterpunch.org >>>In a few short days of battle, the War on Iraq has become a no-win situation for the U.S. If America wins at this point after an inevitably bloody battle for Baghdad, the resulting country will be ungovernable, except under the most brutal of martial law regimes--a quagmire-type situation that promises an endless string of American casualties and another grim monument to insanity on the increasingly crowded Washington Mall. If America loses--something that is at least being contemplated by some military experts because of the inability of the military to secure the 350-mile supply line from the Persian Gulf to the Baghdad front line--it could signal the end of American superpower status in the world, spurring nations around the globe to resist American threats and imperial demands. If there is a stalemate, with the slaughter continuing on both sides and no likelihood of a resolution of the fight, the pressures from around the world, from Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere, for a cease-fire will become irresistible, even as the peace movement at home will mushroom. Bush bet mightily on this war to secure his position as a powerful leader, harkening to the ill-conceived advice of a group of narrow-minded ideologues with little knowledge of either military strategy or Middle East history. Now he appears doomed to become another Lyndon Johnson, throwing more and more ordinance at and spilling more and more blood in a country far from home, while his political future drains away. In the wake of the 9-11 terror attacks on America, George Bush looked unstoppable for a second term as president. No longer. <<<