A Day Late and a Dollar Short

That is, to be more accurate, actually four years late and $300 billion short (or whatever the unpublished cost of the Iraq adventure actually is). President Bush is now talking to experts outside his small circle of believers trying to find a policy that will improve conditions (oops sorry, win the War in Iraq.) He actually went to the State Department to talk to diplomats, who of course were frozen out of pre-invasion discussions in 2002. Now he is talking to retired generals and, gasp, academics to see if they have any ideas. However, the only thing the experts agree on is that our options, thanks to Bush’s misguided decisions, lie somewhere between bad and worse. Meanwhile, he has delayed his decision until January, despite the daily increase in American deaths (now approaching 3,000)and the unconscionable decimation of Iraqis. The supposed evaluation going on now should have been done before we started into Iraq and should have been constantly reexamined over the past four years. Based on his actions of the past six years, I believe he is still incapable of admitting how disastrously wrong his administration has been in both making decisions and carrying them out. Until that happens we are faced with two more years of the same poorly thought out ideas and horrendously executed action.