Not yet, anyway...
"I know there is a lot of speculation that these reports mean that there is going to be some sort of graceful exit out of Iraq..." George, the only one who could associate a government run by you with grace is you.
And no, it's not good to have "unrealistic expectations." It doesn't do to "...set people up for unrealistic expectations," such as:
* ...That invading a sovereign nation, occupying it, and attempting to remake it in the image most favored by your biggest campaign contributors would be a "cakewalk."
* ...That you could justifiably invade and occupy Afghanistan, then go off on a tangent and invade and occupy Iraq on the most spurious of pretexts, and not undermine your original mission and its justifiability.
* ...That killing almost as many Iraqis in three years as Saddam did during his entire brutal reign would somehow win hearts and minds, and sustain your moral authority.
* ...That replacing a mountain would be as easy as toppling it.
* ...That one could point a literal and figurative gun at the collective head of an entire people, and force them to embrace democracy (no, that doesn't betray a fundamental misapprehension of just what democracy is at all...)
* ...That obliterating the infrastructure and social order of one of the few countries in which, as of the beginning of 2003, al Qaeda was not operative would not turn said country into a haven for terrorists.
* ...That you could smash a country to bits, destabilize an entire region, and then wag your finger in the face of the people whose country you smashed and tell them, "Now, you'd better get serious about fixing this mess," and still have a shred of credibility left.
No, it doesn't do for people to have unrealistic expectations at all.
No, My Yellow Wiggle Has Not Bowed Out
11.30.2006
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Reality that does not agree with me is not a part of my belief system.
Or something like that.
Or something like that.
Bush knows that only losers quit.
Winners like him have their daddy's friends come in and buy their way out of trouble. Watch the markets on this one -- Halliburton is going to make Iraq a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Winners like him have their daddy's friends come in and buy their way out of trouble. Watch the markets on this one -- Halliburton is going to make Iraq a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Bush knows that only losers quit.
Winners like him have their daddy's friends come in and buy their way out of trouble. Watch the markets on this one -- Halliburton is going to make Iraq a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Winners like him have their daddy's friends come in and buy their way out of trouble. Watch the markets on this one -- Halliburton is going to make Iraq a wholly-owned subsidiary.
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