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To: stockman_scott who wrote (167152)	7/25/2005 5:55:01 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

What's WINNING in Iraq look like? I will bet that there isn't a single, solitary person in the entire Bush administration who has a single, solitary picture of what winning looks like in Iraq. They can't get there because they don't know. They don't know because they're following an imbecilic sociopath who doesn't read. They're following an idiot who didn't know, until 6 weeks before the invasion, that Iraq was broken into sects. The Bush administration's plan for war: Close eyes, wish and blame everyone else when things go awry. It's like having 5 year olds plan foreign policy. Al Sistani requested elections immediately after the fall of Saddam. Bush refused obviously because he believed the concept that there would be a single 'democratic' election and an authoritarian theocracy would come into power and that would be the end to elections. What exactly has changed since that time? More people have died (a la Vietnam) and more people are furious and more buildings have been demolished but the electorate looks just as theocratic. Right now, I'll bet that Bush is leaning towards a police state to protect the oil industry. That would be his idea of 'winning', simply to get the chaos in Iraq off of the evening news.