He-Said, He-Said, and a 2006 Prediction

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He-Said, He-Said, and a 2006 Prediction

 

 

 

 

He-Said, He-Said, and a 2006 Prediction

Karen Kwiatkowski

 

Janaury 7, 2006

 

& #8203; & #8203; & #8203; & #8203;Green Zone commander General George Casey and his

predecessor, 5th

Corps Commander in Germany, Lt General Ricardo Sanchez are both Most

Excellent Yes Men on Iraq. Yet, they publicly disagreed this week.

Sanchez told troops on their way to a tour in Iraq that " Iraq was on

the verge of civil war. "

 

Within hours, Casey, speaking to CNN in Washington, said specifically

that Iraq was NOT on the verge of civil war.

 

In Washington, the President and his advisors, dreaming and then

prosecuting the invasion and occupation of Iraq, still live in a

fantasy world of their own making. It is a happy place. In this world,

General Casey may positively say that Iraq is not on the verge of

civil war, and that we are have won, are winning, and are going to

keep on winning for as long as it takes. In this world, we have a

great big strategy for all that endless winning in Iraq.

 

In the other world, people like Sanchez have to send young men and

women back into the stupid deadly maelstrom of Iraq, and in this world

soldiers are getting wise to their idiot masters in Washington.

Sanchez tells these soldiers something closer to the truth.

 

Of course, the real truth is uglier than simple civil war. The

destruction of a sovereign Iraq was the primary objective of this war

- and that mission has in fact been accomplished. Bush was and remains

correct from the moment he famously landed on an aircraft carrier and

announced, " Mission Accomplished. " Subsequent presidential medals,

awards and profuse praise for his Iraq war planners and leaders are

consistent and just in this regard. The cost in human lives, spirit,

and hope on all sides, as well as the financial cost may not have been

worth it for those " piling on " and going " defeatist " in the reality

based world, but who cares?

 

The reality-based world is an ugly place. The Casey-said, Sanchez-said

debate prefigures a year ahead that may be remembered as the year the

reality-based world rudely intruded on the Potomac, shattering what is

left of the façade and completely exploding the myth that Bush-Cheney

policies have made either the Middle East more democratic, or America

safer.

 

 

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