Saturday, February 26, 2005
Bush Holding Secret Talks With Iraqi Resistance Leaders
Per David Ware in Time magazine, courtesy of TruthOut. I'm hoping that this is where many of the billions that have vanished (more on this here, too) during the US occupation have gone, into bribes intended to keep the resistance leaders from shooting too much at us. (This at least would be better than where most of the missing billions probably went, which would be the back pockets of the Bush-approved carpetbaggers that flooded Iraq in the wake of the invasion.) Meanwhile, as even the pro-GOP publication Capitol Hill Blue admits, Bush's Iraq "coalition partners" are running away as fast as they can. This is probably why Bush is suddenly more willing to at least talk to the Iraqi resistance leaders. It's either that or face having to spring a full-blown official draft, as opposed to the current backdoor one, on the American people in time for the 2006 midterms.
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