Saturday, May 05, 2007
Bush now unfit to be President - a view
Insurgents in Iraq are right to try to force US troops out of the country, a former British army commander has said.
Gen Sir Michael Rose also told the BBC's Newsnight programme that the US and the UK must "admit defeat" and stop fighting "a hopeless war" in Iraq.
He said: "As Lord Chatham said, when he was speaking on the British presence in North America durin the war of independence, he said 'if I was an American, as I am an Englishman, as long as one Englishman remained on American native soil, I would never, never, never lay down my arms' ...The Iraqi insurgents feel exactly the same way." The soldiers have been telling me from the frontline that the war they have been fighting is a hopeless war.
IMO: I really do not know and cannot guess whether Michael Rose is right, but the Bushies really are beginning to seem too insensitive to diplomatic pressure for their own good or anyone else's.. .. I do know one thing, though - Bush is sounding more and more like Alex Salmond (with his alleged 'majority' of less than 16% of Scottish votes, probably as a protest vote). Both sound like lying dodgy crooks after the style of Nixon, like it or not. Both need to improve their attitude if they want to survive politically.
Gen Sir Michael Rose also told the BBC's Newsnight programme that the US and the UK must "admit defeat" and stop fighting "a hopeless war" in Iraq.
He said: "As Lord Chatham said, when he was speaking on the British presence in North America durin the war of independence, he said 'if I was an American, as I am an Englishman, as long as one Englishman remained on American native soil, I would never, never, never lay down my arms' ...The Iraqi insurgents feel exactly the same way." The soldiers have been telling me from the frontline that the war they have been fighting is a hopeless war.
IMO: I really do not know and cannot guess whether Michael Rose is right, but the Bushies really are beginning to seem too insensitive to diplomatic pressure for their own good or anyone else's.. .. I do know one thing, though - Bush is sounding more and more like Alex Salmond (with his alleged 'majority' of less than 16% of Scottish votes, probably as a protest vote). Both sound like lying dodgy crooks after the style of Nixon, like it or not. Both need to improve their attitude if they want to survive politically.
# posted by uv : 11:02 PM
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