A Way Forward in Iraq for Bush

Here's a way forward for George W. Bush.

The Iraqis don't want you there, the American people don't want you there, you are there illegally under international law; 1,000s of real, living people are killed and maimed every day. So, leave.

As NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF writes: "First, a poll this spring of Iraqis — who know their country much better than we do — shows that only 21 percent think that the U.S. troop presence improves security in Iraq, while 69 percent think it is making security worse."

The Iraqis do want to take more responsibility for their own country, and they want Bush out.

So, leave. But Bush the war president would rather run out the clock until 2009, and then proclaim that he was for victory and those Democrats and moderate Republicans lost Iraq, as though it were our's to lose.

A mildly positive sign is that the Karl Rove political war paradigm no longer works in favor of Bush, though even that will not prevent him from sacrificing 10,000s of more lives until the idiot is finally out of the White House.

Bush Is Firm as Criticism Over Iraq Mounts reads the NYT headline by DAVID STOUT and JEFF ZELENY:

WASHINGTON, July 10 — With his Iraq policy under intensified criticism and debate, President Bush said today the United States must persevere in Iraq, but that the Iraqis themselves must take more responsibility for their country.

Critics of the war should give Gen.

David H. Petraeus, the American commander in Iraq, “a chance to come back and tell us whether his strategy’s working, and then we can work together on a way forward,” Mr. Bush told a friendly, business-oriented audience in Cleveland.

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