The White House has completely failed in Iraq. They can't run a war, but they can run political campaigns. So, the Bush administration is blatantly treating the Iraq war as just another political operation. It's all about politics for them:
But people who attended a series of high-level meetings this month between White House and Congressional officials say President Bush's aides argued that it could be a politically fatal mistake for Republicans to walk away from the war in an election year.CNN's Dana Bash just said the GOP is "downright giddy" about the current debate. They're all loving it.
Meanwhile, in Iraq
The U.S. military announced Thursday that four Marines were killed during operations in insurgent-ridden Anbar province, three of them in a roadside bombing.The White House is worried about politically fatal mistakes, not about actual fatalities in Iraq. So just exactly how many more Americans have to die so the Republicans can win the elections?
