How the Bush Administration destroyed any chance for peace in Iraq

We've been talking about this on another thread, but I am so outraged I want this prominently on our forum here, so that we know that all Bush wants and loves is war, and what Iraq is about is oil and permanent bases. He doesn't give a damn about democracy or the sovereignty of the government there. Had he, then he wouldn't have torpedoed a plan that may have had a chance of working in Iraq. As Karynnj mentioned in the other thread, Bush and the Sunni insurgents killed the peace plan together. All they love is violence as it serves them well to stay in power. Here is the awful truth, per the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/world/middleeast/26iraq.html?_r=1&oref=login



When the Sunni insurgents rejected the plan on Saturday, they listed some demands of their own. At that point, it was not the end of negotiations but the beginning. However, now that the teeth from the Iraq Peace Plan have been deleted, I fear that peace negotiations are dead. The Americans are JUST AS responsible for the death of peace in Iraq as the Sunni insurgents, and I will NOT forgive them for this any time soon.

So when you watch the news and hear about the nonstop carnage of American troops and Iraqis, know that there was a way out of this, but the Bush administration chose NOT to do so. I can only surmise that war is what they love, and peace is what they fear the most.

refused to do the diplomacy. What's amazing is that from Kerry to Casey to Khliazhad, everyone really working on the problem has said that a political solution is the only thing that can resolve this. You are correct that the Sunni rejection should have led to continued negotiations - there is no other sane solution. Stopping the negotiations on the political solution, leaves only military solutions - which everyone says won't work.

Even though Kerry is getting everything but the kitchen sink thrown at him, I am glad he and Feingold had the courage and the concern to do the work of trying to develop a real plan that would facilitate a solution rather than avoid one.

there could gain them in the way of power, positioning and oil.

more and more everyday, that they never wanted peace. They went into this without a plan for peace, you don't go to war without a plan to win the peace. They meaning the neocons and chickenhawks thought they could go in and take control, all for oil and their business buddies.

As one business person said "good for business, bad for the people". Thats all it is about, power and money. Our troops deserve better, we deserve better, when will the whole of this country wake up to the insanity of the Bush administration.

I feel like most of the fighting is Iran and Hamas using Iraq as a battlefield. The fighters are Iraqis, but they're being manipulated by these outside groups. I don't for one second believe that the Shiite militants would be any more accommodating if they didn't have majority power in Iraq. That's why I think it's so important to pull our troops off the frontline, take away the excuse they're using to fight. Once people recognize that it really is their own ME fight, then maybe citizens will start rising up to demand that the violence stops. It will also be clear that there has to be a real ME summit to resolve Sunni-Shiite animosity so the fighting doesn't escalate.

I can't understand how the neocons could have thought it was a good idea to open up that power keg.

foreign forces (American, Iranian, and Wahabbis (al Qaeda)) that have created conditions that feed the violence. Iraqi blogger The Kid has gone so far as to call the U.S. "anti-terrorist divide and conquer Americans". It doesn't matter if there was an intent to divide or not; the fact is the Americans came in dividing the populace into the three groups, including the political parties, and surprise surprise, there's a civil war.

If he had moved quickly to restore services and order, the occupation wouldn't have dragged on. In six months, it will have been three years since Saddam's capture.

The Hillary crew!

loves Hillary! Very centrist crew. I read a lot of very pro Hillary stuff there. JMO