Bush's new plan for Iraq

As Bush meets with top aides to discuss a new plan for Iraq, the rest of us scratch our heads and as the obvious question, "New?" The vast majority of us are surprised only because these meetings send the unbelievable message that the president had a plan at the outset of this adventure. Oh sure, there was that rather vague plan that involved the waving of flags and the Iraqi people welcoming us as liberators. But after you wage a bombing campaign that you call, SHOCK AND AWE, you don't honestly expect the folks who have just endured the best shock and awe the world's lone superpower can muster, to pull out their blood stained flags and waive them at you as you goose step through their streets.

I am not the first to recognize how silly the war rhetoric has become. Some folks inside the beltway have already decided that the time has come to fight the war rhetorically, since the military option has long been over. These folks insist that it is now time to release the lawyers and spinners upon Iraq, craft a careful series of speeches that proclaim our victory, manhood, and honor (image the American flag waving in the background with the God Bless America playing softly). We must artfully blame all failure on the Iraqi people themselves, who as the president regularly reminds us, hate freedom. We tried to give it to them, but they wouldn't take it. Like a bum refusing food, wanting money for wine instead, the Iraqi's refused freedom, choosing violence instead. After a month of blasting the airwaves with this all-American message, we pull the troops out in a cascade of red, white and blue, build a big war memorial in DC to the fallen in Iraq, and call it a day.