We Failed Iraq: George Bush's Fiction of a Free Iraq

Heard the news on Iraq?

Bush sent over James Bakker, bestest friend to the Bush family and the man who helped engineer the handing of the 2000 Presidential Election to George The Tyrant without a proper count. Bakker helped forge a unique argument that a law meant to protect individual voters actually allowed Dubya to claim it wasn't fair that he wasn't made boy king. So Bakker's got some history of the Bushes.

And with all that, Bakker is reporting that there cannot be victory in Iraq. That there will NOT be Bush's much-heralded democracy there because we - the U.S. - mismanaged the case so badly. Instead, Iraq is turning to a theocracy; a shame since Iraq was one of very few predominantly Islamic countries not theocratic. To be brutally honest here, Bush never wanted democracy in Iraq; he wanted what he calls democracy, where a tyrant like himself bestows power and wealth to a privileged few while the rest can sit and die for all he cars.

Bakker says we can dig in our heels there and watch our losses - and the Iraqi citizens who are dying at MUCH faster a rate than our men and women - or... - oh, yes, the word the Republican/GOP loves to toss at Democrats - cut and run.

You've no doubt already heard that the head of Britain's army says it's time to bring Brit troops home. While he moderated his words a bit on Friday, he still sticks by the core of his original remarks.