Bush's Stupidity and Hubris and Iraq

If the first 5 years of Dubya's reign of error in America have demonstrated anything, they have demonstrated that Bush is a serial liar, and a serial imbiber of his own delusions.

Remember how Bush peddled the story that we had to go to war with Iraq because they were involved in the attacks on New York and Washington DC on Sept. 11, 2001; OOPs I mean remember how we had to attack Iraq because the had nuclear weapons capable of being launched at us within 45 minutes; OOPs I mean remember when we had to attack Iraq to get rid of Saddam's WMD; OOPs I mean remember when, since we had already attacked Iraq that Bush decided that it was to bring democracy to the poor bastards.

Those are just a few of the lies (Karl Rove's treason is part of this pattern of lies) and as damaging as they are, they are not nearly as damaging as Bush's incompetence (we can include the dimwits Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice in this incompetence).

The result of Bush's incompetence has made the Iranians the happiest people in the Middle East. As the head of the Iranian intelligence service put it, thanks to George Dubya "This is a great day. Throughout Iraq, the people we supported are in power." Iran supports the Shia in the south and the Kurds in the north. Nice job George.

George is an idiot because when he speaks about the insurgency in Iraq he speaks about it as a struggle between the "freedom loving people of Iraq" and those terrorists that he just knew were there in Iraq all along and he speaks about how much we are helping those freedom loving Iraqis. He thinks the insurgency in Iraq is between the fiction of a freedom loving Iraqi people and his new creation "the Global Stuggle against Extremist Violence" nee' "Global War on Terror."

Let's look at who these freedom loving people are. To do so objectively will yield the following truths.
1. There is no Iraqi insurgency. There is a Sunni Arab insurgency in Iraq.
2. The Sunni Arab insurgency cannot win. Add in the al Qaeda fighters and Baathists, and they still cannot win. Even if the US military left today the insurgents cannot win. Sunni's are 20% of the population of Iraq, Shiites are 60% and Kurds are 20%. Neither the Shia nor the Kurds are involved in the insurgency.
3. Bush's idea is to fight the insurgency by training the Iraqi army to take over the task of fighting and to make sure the constitutional process adheres to his timetable. What is the Iraqi military these days? Under Saddam it was Sunni officers and Sunni, Shia and Kurd conscripts. Today the Iraqi military is primarily Kurdish peshmerga and Shia militia, a few rehabilitated Sunnis from Saddam's officer corps and Sunni and Shia recruits. The only effective units are peshmerga and some Shia militia including al Sadr's.
4. Right now the Shia control southern Iraq and the Kurds control norther Iraq. The US supposedly controls the area around Baghdad but this is where the insurgency is most prominent. Right now the most important country to the Shia and the Kurds is not the US but Iran.

US policy will not end the insurgency and is doing nothing to counter Iranian influence in Shia and Kurdish controlled Iraq. The only plan the Bushies have is to invade Iran. This is just Dumb and Dumber.

Iranian influence in Iraq will not lead to an Iraqi democracy, but to an Iraqi theocracy, no rights for women, and no thanks to America for the blood we left there.

George W. Bush is Iran's best secret weapon. He's the missing WMD in Iraq.