Bush Rejects Truce with Iraqi Rebels
by James Buchanan
In what seemed like a golden opportunity for an exit strategy, eleven Iraqi rebel organizations offered a truce if the US got out of their country by 2008. Did the Bush regime jump on this chance to get out of a hopeless quagmire? Of course not. Bush’s solution to every problem is to use a stick with no carrot. When using a stick fails, Bush tries to use a bigger stick. This is the same exact strategy Israel has been using which has produced an endless war against the Palestinians (which the US has funded for the last 58 years).
Despite all the propaganda from the nearly-indicted Karl Rove about “cutting and running,” the support for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq has steadily increased. Anyone listening to Fox News or even mainstream TV would think that only a few hippies in tie-dyed T-shirts favor an immediate withdrawal, but “according to a poll by the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute. 47.8 per cent of respondents think the U.S. should pull out of Iraq now, while 44.1 per cent disagree.” A different poll by Zogby found that 72 percent of our troops in Iraq think the US should withdraw within one year. These troops are witnessing first hand what our occupation is “accomplishing.” If they think it’s a waste of time, they’re probably right. (more…)