From the mouth of Karl Rove comes the shop-worn phrase "cut and run" as in "We won't cut and run from Iraq."
This is got to be the biggest joke. If both feet are firmly stuck in a quagmire, you're not cutting or running. You can't. You're stuck. And being stuck in a quagmire makes you a sitting target for other people with weapons. It's what is happening to our troops in Iraq. And their mission is much the same as in Vietnam. These troops go on patrol, in cities instead of jungles, to get shot at so they can shoot at the enemy. Except the enemy disappears and regroups. And we are left with dead and wounded soldiers and women and children caught in the crossfire.
Bush says he sees things getting better, when all indications are they are not. Nothing will get better at this point without security. That means more troops. That means a draft. Rumsfeld's small, quick strike force idea has been totally discredited.
But we won't see a draft. We won't see more troops. We have nobody to send to iraq to pull our troops out of the quagmire we created.
It's a quagmire. There is no meaningful progress. We can't get the power running, the sewers working or people to stop shooting or bombing each other, or us. What is the point, Mr. President?
If there is anybody running for Congress out there, please start calling it a quagmire as in, "What are we going to do about the quagmire in Iraq?"
"How can we make things better in that quagmire if we can't get the lights on? If we can't protect our troops? If we can't even protect the people who support us?
Mr. President, how can you call it progress when, 3 plus years after the war, you still have to slip in and out of Iraq like a thief in the night?
Mr. President, end the madness. Pull our troops out, because you're not going to send them any help, and don't let any more of them die in a quagmire you created.