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June 19, 2006

"Betting on Failure" in Iraq

John Fund belabors the mystical pile of bullshit that is the shallow run of reasoning for the war in Iraq. Given that his excuses and source citations have been toppled multiple times at blogs and media outlets more substantial than PK, I'm not going to waste time doing it again.

But one small part of Fund's diatribe is worthy of mention. Its the subtitle for his headline:

Trying to Get Even: Democrats keep betting on failure in Iraq.

Fund uses this phrasing to set Democrats up as America hating nation bashers who want to see Bush lose.

What Fund (and others who use this phrasing) fail to articulate is what victory in Iraq actually looks like. What is the threshold for "winning"?

I'm betting it has little to do with Iraqis being able to hold their own nation together and move forward--and everything to do with the timing of the 2006 elections. All of a sudden there'll be a victory in Iraq somewhere between August and October. Bush will decide to power down the US military presence just in time to try and help the GOP keep the House.

When John Murtha wants to set up troop withdrawals its "cut and run". When Bush decides to do it, it will be "victory". The situation in Iraq won't have changed.

People like John Fund will just write about it differently.

Posted by Carla at June 19, 2006 10:01 AM