An interesting article posted on TomDispatch.com by William Astore, lieutenant colonel, retired (USAF). Astore has a doctorate in modern history from the University of Oxford (1996). He suggests that the Bush administration for some time has prepared a myth to cast blame for the so-called failures in Iraq on, "weasely politicians" (are there any other kind?) and a "media who undercut us by focusing on the negative."
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Astore, interestingly compares this to both Germany at the end of World War One and the US toward the end of the Vietnam War and for years after word. Be prepared for even more of the "defeatist" charge and other swift boat techniques against any politician that is against the war in Iraq. Can't you just hear the GOP candidate, who ever it is, lash out, blame the Democratic party nominee, and Democrats in general as "guilty" for the failures in Iraq.
The article is very interesting on many levels.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/...