Comments on: Cry havoc and let loose the books of war http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/10/04/cry-havoc-and-let-loose-the-books-of-war/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:16:52 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jesse Barton http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/10/04/cry-havoc-and-let-loose-the-books-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-1091 Jesse Barton Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:49:27 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/10/04/cry-havoc-and-let-loose-the-books-of-war/#comment-1091 On or about July 2, 2003, so shortly after announcing "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq, Bush was asked to respond to reports that insurgents would attack US troops still in Iraq. He said, "[B]ring them [the attacks] on. We've got the force necessary to deal with the security situation." This is classic "chickenhawk" stuff. Safely ensconced in Washington DC, Bush goaded the insurgents to attack the American men and women dangerously deployed to Iraq. Bush was willing to do such a thing, because he was, and is, in such denial that he thought the insurgents posed no serious threat to American military forces (just as his vice-president thought that the Iraqi citizenry virtually would unanimously greet the American forces as liberators). Tens of thousands of American, coalition, and Iraqi deaths later, we know just how wrong Bush was, and just how deep is his denial. On or about July 2, 2003, so shortly after announcing “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq, Bush was asked to respond to reports that insurgents would attack US troops still in Iraq. He said, “[B]ring them [the attacks] on. We’ve got the force necessary to deal with the security situation.”

This is classic “chickenhawk” stuff. Safely ensconced in Washington DC, Bush goaded the insurgents to attack the American men and women dangerously deployed to Iraq. Bush was willing to do such a thing, because he was, and is, in such denial that he thought the insurgents posed no serious threat to American military forces (just as his vice-president thought that the Iraqi citizenry virtually would unanimously greet the American forces as liberators). Tens of thousands of American, coalition, and Iraqi deaths later, we know just how wrong Bush was, and just how deep is his denial.

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