The Bush Administration Plans to Blame You for Iraq
By William Astore,
Tomdispatch.com. Posted November 9, 2007.
After holding so few high-level government and military officials
accountable for failures in Iraq, Bush needs a scapegoat.
The world's finest military launches a highly coordinated
shock-and-awe attack that shows enormous initial progress. There's
talk of the victorious troops being home for Christmas. But the war
unexpectedly drags on. As fighting persists into a third, and then a
fourth year, voices are heard calling for negotiations, even "peace
without victory." Dismissing such peaceniks and critics as defeatists,
a conservative and expansionist regime -- led by a figurehead who
often resorts to simplistic slogans and his Machiavellian sidekick who
is considered the brains behind the throne -- calls for one last surge
to victory. Unbeknownst to the people on the home front, however, this
duo has already prepared a seductive and self-exculpatory myth in case
the surge fails.
