[Texgreen] Bush admits Iraq has a puppet government, etc.

[Roger Baker]

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... The president put it far more bluntly when leaders of Congress =20
came to visit Mr. Bush at the White House earlier on Wednesday. =93I =20
said to Maliki this has to work or you=92re out,=94 the president told =20=

the Congressional leaders, according to two officials who were in the =20=

room. Pressed on why he thought this strategy would succeed where =20
previous efforts had failed, Mr. Bush shot back: =93Because it has =
to.=94...

Not only that, but he came close to admitting personal error. And he =20
says his plan will work "because it has to".

Sounds reassuring coming from Bush, right? But what if it doesn't =20
work any better than the generals he just fired think it will?

Then we would have to reinstitute the draft and somehow steal a dab =20
of oil from somewhere. So that we can expand the war just enough to =20
steal enough more oil to preserve our American way of life. Is that a =20=

plan or what?

A must read; actually all of James Howard Kunstler's stuff is worth =20
reading, but here he homes in on the heart of our society's denial =20
regarding the un-sustainability of transportation in the USA.

"Making Other Arrangements"

http://www.orionmagazine.org/pages/om/07-1om/Kunstler.html=