Animal Farm part Deux

Wait for it..here it comes. Wait for it and there it is..

Let the official spinning begin……

Gates says U.S. is not winning Iraq war
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer 2 hours, 26 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Robert Gates, the White House choice to be the next defense secretary, conceded Tuesday that the United States is not winning the war in Iraq and warned that if that country is not stabilized in the next year or two it could lead to a "regional conflagration."

I believe it was George Orwell who said it best in Animal Farm. In a nutshell the old enemy is the new ally and the old ally…well you get the picture.

The Bush legacy will be defined in the next 2 years. The election in November gave the clue that perhaps the approach of the previous 6 years wasn’t as big a slam dunk as 1st perceived by the brains in the Rove corner. In a month or so well will adopt new plans and exit strategies from Iraq. Many of these will not be dissimilar from those that Don Rumsfield outlined in his suggestions prior to his hasty departure form Camelot. I believe in the end no one actually saw Rummy as the issue. In the end none of us have ever done better then our boss thought we should.

Unless you were a complete hermit you had to believe that Iraq had begun its rather dismal spin into civil war. The country is imploding quicker then a bad taco from Taco Bell. Even a society obsessed with Paris Hilton and “Benifer”, had to have noticed, that the war in Iraq was going south.

Many have said that this was President Bush’s Vietnam and sadly it would appear that history has jumped up to prove this correct. I just hope in the end, the spin-doctor era we are quickly approaching, that we do not lose sight of the men and women of our military who have given so much.