When Bush was talking escalation, Bush meant escalation. Not just Iraq. No. He wants a much bigger war. He's out of control:
A recent series of American raids against Iranians in Iraq was authorized under an order that President Bush decided to issue several months ago to undertake a broad military offensive against Iranian operatives in the country, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday.So, are we at war with Iran now? At the beginning of this week, it didn't seem like we were. Now, it seems like we are.
“There has been a decision to go after these networks,” Ms. Rice said in an interview with The New York Times in her office on Friday afternoon, before leaving on a trip to the Middle East.
Ms. Rice said Mr. Bush had acted “after a period of time in which we saw increasing activity” among Iranians in Iraq, “and increasing lethality in what they were producing.” She was referring to what American military officials say is evidence that many of the most sophisticated improvised explosive devices, or I.E.D.’s, being used against American troops were made in Iran.
The situation in Iraq gets worse by the day. Bush and Cheney talked for years about how they wanted to project an image of American strength. Now, they have the greatest power in the world pinned down by insurgents in Iraq. Doesn't quite project strength.
In the long term, it will take decades to overcome this disaster. But, in the short term, Bush's war-mongering must be reined in. On Thursday, Senator Hagel said he would resist "the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam." So, resist already.
