Anderson Cooper Tattoo Defies Our Expectations
To review last nights 'show.'
John McCain has his head in the sand over Iraq. He is completely out of touch with the way this country sees it's problems in that country and the way they see the resolve to move our troops out of Iraq. Will it hurt his 'bid' for 2008 presidential nominee? No. He just won't win the election. He might even try to 'Swift Boat' the Democratic candidate as Bush 'swift boated' his past attempt at nominations.
John McCain has had a rough go of it in politics. He is well liked in Arizona, but, that could be changing by the virtual fact the Republicans have a very poor record on Immigration Reform and Immigrant Amnesty and that is a huge issue in Arizona. It is such a huge issue is caused Kyle to only receive 50% of the vote a drop in nearly six percentage points in the final weeks of Kyl's re-election.
The point is that the Republicans are completely out of touch with the country. They 'hedge' every issue including immigration reform because they don't have clear policies on anything. Even on Iraq the Republicans have no clear policy. The electorate was Buffaloed into believing they did as Bush yelled out from every potium he appeared on "Stay the Course." The fact of the matter is Bush is treating the Iraq War as a police action against the Shi'ites when it is truly a Civil War between two ethnicities. Bush and OUR military are actually taking sides in looking for Sunnis friendly to the idea of a 'unity government' regardless of elections, regardless of any majority decisions. Bush is trying to create a Sunni arm of a unity government by giving favor to those the Central Government calls suspicious and enemies. Iraq is a mess and Bush has absolutely 'No Clue.' He never did have any clue about anything that he was doing over there including tracking American munitions that were used to kill our own troops. And along comes McCain saying 'Stay the Course.' "Clear, Hold and Rebuild, with the emphasis on 'HOLD' he what he states. Well, what do you think 'Say the Course' means?
And Anderson can handicap 2008 all he wants, McCain and Guilliani will be the candidates to beat as there is little else coming out of the 2006 elections otherwise for Republicans. The former Senator Alan is out of the race and Frist will never make a good showing, he has a worse message than McCain.
And when it comes to Bush and his Iraq Study Group, basically, Maureen Dowd is right on the money in her appearance on "Meet the Press" this past Sunday. Bush #41 has sent in 'his team' to save the day. I doubt they will. The circumstances in Iraq are more clear to me than ever before. Basically, the Shi'ites have majority rule and the Sunnis are being ostracized from the process. The Sunnis are still trying to out maneuver the Shi'ites and they will never be able to do that. The Shi'ites have the majority. The Shi'ites have experienced decades of hate and killing and they aren't about to relinquish any of that control to any other majority. The Mahdi Army exists because of the profound fear of the Shi'ites to be killed en masse numbers again. Iraq will be a Shi'ite nation, the majority has it. How that will work out in square miles and will the Kurds secede as well as the Sunnis into autonomous nation-states? The future will tell. What is probably more realistic is that there will be provinces that ultimately have equal share at the federal level making decisions about assets and debt, but, each province will have autonomy in areas of law structured within their culture and religion. Time will tell.
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