Bush Cedes Control of US Military to a Foreign Country

By: Lowell
Published On: 11/1/2006 9:43:53 AM

And that country is...Iraq.  Heckuva job!

(Update by Rob: The basic story is that Bush was forced to lift "a near siege that had stood at least since last Wednesday ... after the kidnapping of an American soldier."  Conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan notes the irony in the Republican furor over Kerry's word and their silence over Bush abandoning a U.S. soldier: "No commander-in-chief who actually walks the walk, rather than swaggering the swagger, would acquiesce to such a thing.") 

(Update by Rob: Check out and recommend this diarist's similar point on Kos.)

Comments



Good (Jon-Phillip - 11/1/2006 10:17:01 AM)
You got to it before I did--and in better form (first time I written a diary.

Also love the Sullivan link.  Perfect.

Everyone, please post on this everywhere you can.



It is even worse (Jeff B - 11/1/2006 10:31:39 AM)
Bush ceded control of our military to a radical islamist named Al Sadr. Sadr's faction won the most votes in the purpled fingered election. Sadr controls a vast portion of southern Iraq. Mailiki is subserviant to Sadr. Sadr is accused of killing US soldiers.


Bush is a fool, a coward, or both (RayH - 11/1/2006 11:23:16 AM)

For all his bravado, Bush acts as though American lives are expendable. He can rail at Democrats all day, but this action is the worst kind of "cut and run." He's abandoned a missing soldier to the enemy.

The invasion of Iraq was made on flimsy evidence at best. Thousands of good people are now dead as result of the delusions of a man who wanted to be "a war president."

It is ironic that Bush demanded an apology from Kerry on behalf of US troops; meanwhile, as Commander in Chief, he deserted them. He supported Israel's recent war on Lebanon and the Palestinians at the cost of untold lives because they had "the right to defend themselves" and to demand the return of kidnapped troops, but he's given up on a missing American soldier.

I guess life is cheap for President Bush.