Palast: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
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Baltimore Chronicle - Jan 11, 2007
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/011107Palast.shtml
OPINION:
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
There's a real alternative in Iraq. And it isn't more troops, George.
by GREG PALAST
George W. Bush has an urge to surge. Like every junkie, he asks for
just one more fix: let him inject just 21,000 more troops and that
will win the war.
Been there. Done that. In 1965, Tom Paxton sang,
Lyndon Johnson told the nation
Have no fear of escalation.
I am trying everyone to please.
Though it isn't really war,
We're sending 50,000 more
To help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese.
Four decades later, Bush is asking us to save Iraq from the Iraqis.