General Petraeus did his job over the weekend to reveal the Bush Administration Plan B. Petraeus said yesterday that he wouldn’t know anything in September except that it is too early to withdraw troops or change the mission. Petraeus said that it would be another 1-2 years before the United States can consider any major changes in direction in Iraq, because meddling by Iraq’s neighbors Syria and Iran makes a drawdown impossible. Given that the Bush Administration rejected the ISG report recommendation of talking with Iran and Syria as far back as last December, and only recently did anything along these lines, it is more than a little hypocritical for Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker to use this as an excuse to stay another 1-2 years. And having made fools of themselves with their Korea analogy, the administration now tries to tell us that Iraq is like Northern Ireland. Please stop trying to dress up an occupation as something other than it is.
There’s no place to "occupy." They’ve tried to make analogies to Korea and Northern Ireland. At the current rate of attrition, it costs us 3 to 4 American lives per day to "occuppy" Iraq. It costs the Iraqis a lot more than that for us to be there. The thing about this situation is that everything we say is wrong. But even if they said the opposite thing, we’d be wrong. We should never have invaded Iraq. That’s the bottom line. Any discussion about what to do now is absurd, at least any American discussion. There’s nothing to do except come home and thoroughly clean out the people who got us into this mess – and see if we can put America back together. Of all the people in the world who do not know what to do in Iraq, we’re the ones. We are "recused"…
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