on Sep 4th, 2007Envoy Paul Bremer Discloses Incompetency of US Foreign Policy Under Bush
For a frightening lesson in the absolute incompetency of the Bush administration, check out U.S. envoy Paul Bremer’s account of how the decision to disband the Iraqi army went down. Bremer is really just trying to cover his own ass in terms of being portrayed as the guy who made the decision to pull the plug on the army. He was apparently livid after reading that Bush was distancing himself from the decision.
The dismantling of the Iraqi army is considered the key blunder of the U.S.’s post-invasion military strategy. I mean, think about it, what prevents anarchy in any country: law and order. If you want order, my friends, you need a military and police force. The dilemma in this case was simple. The order in Iraq before the U.S. invasion was imposed under a Sunni Baath command. Once Sadaam was toppled, how on earth could you rely on a Sunni Baath military to maintain law and order over the formerly repressed Shiite and Kurdish factions? How do you forge a new law and order in Iraq given the country is composed of three separate religious factions, one of which, the Sunnis, dominated the other two?
Back to the frightening lesson: the Bush administration, namely our Commander in Chief, President Bush, and his Joints Chiefs of Staff, spent what seems all of three seconds considering how to deal with this situation. According to Bremer’s account, Bush has even made it seem like it was Bremer who made the decision to dismantle the Sunni Baath army. This is leadership??? This is a disaster and the Republican-controlled Congress that rubber-stamped this madness should all be voted out of office.
I would even go one step further: I would reduce the pensions of everyone in the Bush administration and every Republican congressperson and senator so they can help pay their fair share of the tax burden imposed by this senseless war. Why should they be allowed to collect a decent pension at taxpayer expense after making horrible decisions that have cost the rest of the U.S. population to suffer for years to come?
Law and order begins at home. The taxpayer buck stops when neither exists. To read about Bremer’s attempt to rewrite history before the historians is laughable. To live under such ridiculous U.S. foreign policy is tragic, especially when its cost comes out of our pockets without permission.
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