©2007 UrbisMedia
DRAGON CITY JOURNAL rarely makes predictions. [1]. But this one is an alert to all prophets and bookies, and you. George Bush is setting up for the ole dumperooski. He will announce it in the coming days, so we want you to be on the lookout for it. Write Nancy Pelosi, write your Democratic congressperson. Write “DUCK!”. He knows that his Iraq war is un-winnable, probably lost already. Now he is concerned with two things: his “legacy” (winner or loser) and, saving the Republicans from years of minority status. The solution is–you guessed it–the dumperooski.
So, how best to do that? The Old Dumerpooski; and this is how it will work. 1) Bush will continue to say that we are “winning.” 2) Bush will promulgate his “surge” strategy that will last 12- 18 months [2]. This way he keeps the Democrats on the defensive (“if you bitch about this you only discourage our troops and encourage the insurgents”). Of course, this is not going to work, but—and this is the important but —it will get him to the end of his administration in what he will claim was a “winning” position. Then 3) he dumps the already lost war on the next Democratic president. It’s the old dumperooski. He gets the Democrats to do the surrender, and history records it that way. He gets to run around his ranch saying” “We were winning when I was in charge.”
George is a master at slipping out of responsibility for being a serial screw-up. He’s done it all his life—screwing up business and faking a military career—and you can bet that that is why he is setting up the old dumperooski. Like a junkyard dog with diarrhea, he makes a stinky mess and moves on. The Democrats might just be holding this grenade when it goes off.
Just about everybody else knows it; some have even dared to say it. The war in Iraq is lost. It’s George Bush’s last attempt at manhood in the colossal flop of a career of flops. He believed his own lies, he swaggered, reveled in the power that irrational fear conferred upon him (and he nurtured), and reality has come to exact its terrible truth. His erstwhile supporters are those who are cutting and running, and those he used to call appeasers and traitors are finally being seen as the realists.
America has got itself into terrible mess thanks to George Bush and what is becoming painfully evident is not only that is there no way out of it with victory and honor, but also that Bush has two more years in office. He will be saddled forever as the guy who lied to start the wrong war and lost it. It is clear from the polls that he no longer has any credibility with a large majority of the American public. He will have no effectiveness except as an irritant in his remaining tenure. George Bush should resign and take his vice president and the rest of his cabinet with him. It is the only honorable thing he can do, not that he has any record of doing the honorable thing. If not, articles of impeachment should be prepared. (It would be some retribution for the Republicans impeaching of Bill Clinton for a sexual act between consenting adults. These are Republicans that caused the deaths of 3000 Americans and a quarter million Iraqis and countless wounded. And they arrogate to themselves the moral posture in American politics?
More Americans will die while Bush plays Hamlet, collecting “facts”—something that never concerned him before—to make his speech to America, now postponed till after the first of the year. Each day Bush dithers with his war another six or so Americans are killed, even more maimed by the horrendous wounds that are produced by bombs, as the civil war worsens and more Iraqis die. So more caskets will be snuck into Dover Air Force Base under cover of darkness. To put more troops there just gives the insurgents more “targets”; to reduce their number means those left are even more vulnerable. All that “shock and awe, of the giddy race to Baghdad has turned into a nightmare for George Bush and America. The lies about Jessica Lynch and Tillman have been exposed, the Abu Ghraib photos disseminated, Guantanamo shown for the torture chamber it is, and soldiers and marines indicted for the murders of innocent Iraqi citizens. There is no snatching “victory” from the jaws of this defeat; there willnot be a “mission accomplished.” The lies, the deceits, the arrogance, and the sheer stupidity have all come home to roost. Americans have come out of their denial and have admitted that Bush’s war is not the equivalent of a “war on terror”; some have even admitted that that it was terrorists from Bush’s friends, the Saudis, and from Egypt—not Iraqis—who attacked America in 2001.
Bush is completely snookered. Bullies don’t negotiate, so there little chance he will open talks with the (evil axis) Iranians, or the Syrians. Anyway, the Iranians and the Syrians have the advantage now, not to mention Kim Il Jong, who seems to off the radar screen of the old “axis of evil.” Not to mention Afghanistan, which will soon be back in the brutal hands of the Taliban. Not to mention Osama bin Laden, who remains conspicuously un-mentioned.
America now owes a huge debt to the people of Iraq. They didn’t ask for this war and we trashed (and many of them did, too) their country. They have over 50% unemployment and nearly no working physical or social infrastructure. Sort of the way Bush ran his businesses. If anything is to be done about it, it will be the Democrats’ responsibility after Bush springs the old dumperooski on them. Of course, we will not be able to afford it because of the debt George ran up and the tax breaks and war profits he gave to his corporate friends. George pulled the old “borrow and spend” for six years so that we are now “owned” by the Chinese; but expect the outcry if there is even a suggestion of raising some taxes.
So, what can the Democrats do? Well, more of them need to read DRAGON CITY JOURNAL for one thing; we’re here to help. [3] The other thing is to get all those generals and soldiers, pols, and citizens to strike up the chorus. It’s a sad song, but it’s the reality. We lost another war .
The Fat Lady has sung. Elvis has left the building. Finito! We lost. Let’s deal with it, becauseGeorge is setting up the ole dumperooski !
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©2007, James A. Clapp (UrbisMedia Ltd. Pub. 1.6.2007)
[1] OK, so we were wrong on that prediction that Angelina Jolie would throw over Brad Pitt to marry our beloved and respected (and some even think a little “cute”) Editor and CEO, Jim. He’s getting over it (we think) and is even going to keep the 14 Asian and African kids he adopted.
[2] As recommended by a new retired general he has dredged up from the conservative American Enterprise Institute, since most of the others don’t support the idea.
[3] I plan to attract Pelosi by posting my penne arrabiata and melanzane Parmagianarecipes.Then she will know what you know: Dragon City Journal: Breathing the Fire of Knowledge on the Metropolis of the Next Millennium