The situation in Iraq has gone from bad to worse, and Preznit Vacation has no desire to let unpleasant facts get in the way of heading to Crawford to vote in the election there, at taxpayer expense.
President Bush won't talk about the prospect of civil war in Iraq and what it would mean to the U.S. troop presence.
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"Khalilzad said the U.S. has little choice but to maintain a strong presence in Iraq -- or risk a regional conflict in which Arabs side with Sunnis and Iranians back Shiites, in what could be a more encompassing version of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, which left more than 1 million dead.
The last time the US sent military forces in to intercede in a civil war, we had to build a monument to 58,000-plus Americans who lost their lives taking sides in a civil war that both the Preznit and Vice-Preznit ran away from, in spades. This time, those two cowards started it and we, the People own it. Unfortunately.
