This maddeningly pointless AngloAmerican occupation of IRAQ will persist so long as President Bush lives in dread of his father's "
Wimp Factor" legacy, and
the impotency implicit of not having War-Time Presidential Powers.
It becomes increasingly absurd for proponents to attempt any rationalization of what is, in fact an irrational military deployment; to be sure, it seems almost as absurd for occupation opponents to keep pointing out things like "reason" and/or "reality"...
...when, indeed the basis of the Administration's "Borrow & Bleed" policy all boils down to
the Politics of Anxious Masculinity.
Terrified of "Cut & Run" = weakness we begin to get the uneasy impression that, not unlike, say ~ Stalingrad 1942, AngloAmerican leaders would prefer to mis-lead, even sacrifice an entire Army, rather than lose face.
As all raisons d'etre peter out, even the hideous casus belli tautology of "we must continue to Bleed & Borrow to honour all those who have bled before and debit treasure expended" despite obvious folly fails to inspire all but the most desperate electorate ~ the mis-leaders vent their anger...
...but in these invectives, ironically, at last we begin to see revealed truth: We come to a phenomenon called "projection."
The most common way that we explain human behaviour is to use our beliefs, our motives and our behaviour patterns as a template. So if the leaders tell you that: eg., "they have evil in their hearts" and "they respect no laws or conventional ethics; they will stop at nothing to achieve their purpose," what the AngloAmerican leaders are really telling us is that a candid examination of their inner motives reveals that they would most likely destroy all to save self, if they must; and that urge scares them; so they will project their urges onto others ~ and announce that, "I have discovered reality and this is what it looks like."
Not unlike many petty salesmen or most extremist socio-paths, they are invisible unto themselves : they can only see their self in our reactions to what they say and do. Listen closely to them now, for in a perverse sense, in their desperate anger they are finally telling us the truth :-/