The Daily Background

AP is reporting from Crawford that the decider is still deciding what to do about Iraq. The way they write it, it sounds as though he’ll still be ‘deciding’ and ‘consulting’ with his experts for quite some time:

“We’ve got more consultation to do until I talk to the country about the plan,” Bush said, appearing before reporters outside an office building near his Texas ranch. Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates flanked Bush as he made his statement.

For some reason, this AP article is circulating around pretty quickly, and I’m guessing it’s because tone of the article makes it sound like it’ll be some time yet before he decides what to do on Iraq. The Iraq Study Group report was released on December 6th, and President Bush had been ‘consulting’ with people ever since the midterm elections.

We’re just at a stand-still here while more troops are dying in Iraq. Right now 2,990 Americans have died in Iraq and we’ve been there 1,379 days. . If he waits until the State of the Union Address on January 23, to announce his “new direction,” it’ll have taken more than two and a half months for the decider to finally make his decision about Iraq.

According to Team Bush, the “War on Terror” is one in which civilization itself hangs in the balance, and they’ve compared it to World War II (I’ve written more about seriousness in which the Bush Administration portrays their “War on Terror” compared the seriousness of how they wage it in a Truthout column back in November titled Wartime Sacrifices). Did Winston Churchill take off two and a half months in the middle of WWII to figure out a “new direction” for Great Britain? No, of course not.

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