this latest quote from our idiot president is really too much. soldier's die and, referring to their attackers, bush says to "bring them on." i realize he's just trying to pretend he's tough, but its pretty insensitive to the families of the daily casualties from iraq. at least senator lautenberg has called bush on this
the real problem with this administration is that he's in a logical bind with these continuing attacks in iraq. on the one hand, bush announced that iraq was liberated and the war was over, on the other hand, he has been attributing all of the attacks on american soldiers to "baathist loyalists" or "holdovers from the old regime."
it can't be both. if the enemy is still fighting, then the war is not over. if the war is over and the baathists are defeated, then this is a new problem that has to be addressed. by claiming the war is over, yet attributing the attacks to the old problem, the administration is both patting itself on the back for a victory it may not have won and ignoring new problems by calling them something that, in effect, has already been addressed. (of course the fact that these attacks continue show that the problem has not been addressed. but we're not supposed to notice these things)
in my opinion, the people who attack u.s. soldiers are probably a mix of people. some baathists may be fighting on, but there are also plenty of others who are armed and motivated to attack americans in iraq, including, average frustrated iraqis, islamic fundamentalists, local nationalists, and foreigner fighters who have flooded into iraqi lately from across the muslim world. to attribute all of these attacks, or even a majority, to the baath party is simple-minded and ignores the complexity of the situation (but ignoring complexity is what this administration does best).
(sorry i didn't put any links into that rant. normally I'm better at citing things, but it takes a lot more time to do those kinds of posts and i gotta run to gigantic)
