August 21, 2005

• Well, George W. Bush was right about one thing, at least... If you give someone a deadline, they'll use it to their advantage. He didn't want to mention a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, saying that revealing such a timetable would embolden the enemy (AKA: the Iraqi people). Never mind that there is no timetable on withdrawal.

  But, as others pointed out, Iraq's first constitutional crisis is: Hey, where's the constitution? Weren't you guys working on one?

  And if you're an Islamist trying to participate in the constitutional process, you'll dawdle until the deadline is there, then passed. You'll then threaten the US with continued foot-dragging, forcing loss of face and and rising US casualties, unless they capitulate on one simple thing: Islam will be *the* main source of law for the new Iraq.

  Earlier today, this guy from the PNAC, their executive director of middle east projects or some such title, said the following on a TV news round-up show: "Women's social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy." If you'll recall, one of the justifications for the war was the horrible treatment of women in the Islamic world (however horrible it may actually be... certainly suffrage would be a move forward, wouldn't it?)

  Everything. EVERYTHING they said they wanted for Iraq (and the US) has fallen apart. I think these people should be invited on these TV round-robin news shows, but if they're treated to anything other than firm backhands every time they open their mouths, there is no justice.

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