[extropy-chat] FWD (SK) Re: Bush says critics distort history

[Dirk Bruere]

On 11/17/05, Terry W. Colvin <fortean1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> [Forwarding comments from John Forester, son of C.S. Forester. -Terry]
>
>
> In my opinion, were I in Bush's position (which I cannot, not having
> been born in the USA), I would accept responsibility for the decision
> to invade Iraq, for the errors that led to that decision, and to the
> errors in planning that have produced results far different from my
> expectation, and then do my utmost to work out a reasonable plan for
> fixing the problem that the nation, and the world, now faces. Bush
> refuses to take this course, insisting that we all accept that
> everything that he has done has been perfect and that all that we
> should do is to "stay the course", meaning to continue to carry out
> the plan (more nearly lack of plan) that has not worked in the
> expectation that it will work.
>
> I hark back to the account, some years ago, by one of his professors
> at Yale, stating that Bush always tried to escape responsibility for
> his errors and omissions. Same damned excuse, but now for the
> world-wide scale of problems
>
> Bush's attitude makes it very difficult for the Democrats to work out
> a better plan for recovery from this problem. As it is, they seem to
> be unable to get beyond a desire to get our troops out, as the
> contrast to Bush's insistence that the only patriotic act is to keep
>

The obvious answer is to withdraw the troops and replace them with a
pan-Arab UN force.
Return the problem to its rightful owners.

Dirk
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