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March 22, 2006

The Emperor Speaks

How many of us said, before the invasion of Iraq had even begun, that once the U.S. entered the country it was never going to leave? Turns out we were right.

Asked when all U.S. forces would finally pull out of Iraq, Bush told a White House news conference: "That will be decided by future presidents and future governments of Iraq."

That means the earliest all our troops could be out of Iraq is January, 2009. If the history of other U.S. interventions is any guide (think Korea, Germany, and Japan), we'll still have troops there in 2059.

Oh, yes. There's no civil war, either.

Bush dismissed comments from former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi that sectarian violence constituted civil war, saying it was a good sign that an attack a month ago on a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra failed to spark all-out conflict.

I guess the 50 to 60 people who are dying daily in sectarian fighting, as former CIA asset Allawi asserted, do not constitute a civil war. Nor does a combination of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom constitute water, if Bush says it doesn't.

Posted by Mike Tennant at March 22, 2006 11:21 AM

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