DOWNING STREET: THE ROAD WARRIOR

THE ROAD WARRIOR
The Warrior Princess Condoleezza Rice Has Taken Her Show on The Road Recently to the Middle East, a theater where the matinee reviews are decidedly depressing for the Idle American George Bush and his current direction of the show.  But Condi has a new script, a re-write of the show.  She is playing her studied lines to every talent scout she can.

CONDI CLEANS UP NICE
Yes, there are a few terrorists.  So called insurgents will be defeated by not just military but political means, by both political and military means. Insurgencies are defeated not just militarily; they're defeated politically as well. But they're making very rapid progress.  And there's a lot of progress that's being made that way. So you have to look also at the tremendous progress. There's a lot of very rapid tremendous progress.

Since the only alternative that the so-called insurgents and the terrorists are actually offering is to continue carnage, to continue blowing up innocent Iraqis, they can create a lot of havoc, wreak a lot of havoc, create carnage against innocent Iraqis

But they, in time, are going to realize -- I think they may already realize, they must think that its last days are going to come because they're losing the Iraqi people. The most important blow to the insurgency is that they're losing the Iraqi people. . The insurgency cannot continue to exist if it loses the Iraqi people.

WASH
Well, you defeat an insurgency by both political and military means, and there is a lot going on in conjunction jointly between coalition forces and the Iraqis to root out some of the strongholds of insurgencies. There was an operation that's been going on up on the Syrian border, and there's a lot of progress that's being made that way.

But the real goal here and the real way that the insurgency will be defeated is that the Iraqi people choose a political path, and more and more Iraqis have chosen that political path. We are seeing the Iraqis go through a series of milestones that demonstrate that Iraq is building a different kind of political future from the transfer of sovereignty not quite a year ago to the creation of a Transitional Administrative Law earlier than that to, now, elections in January of this year. Now they are about to write a constitution. They'll have elections again in December that will bring about a permanent government.

And at each phase, more Iraqis are involved in this process. Sunni and Shia and Kurds and other Iraqis are concentrating politically on building a united Iraq. That is why I think the insurgency must think that its last days are eventually going to come because the Iraqis are turning to their politics to serve their future.
Rice Interview on ABC's This Week with [George Stephanopoulos]
June 19, 2005

As I read these excerpts over and over again, Viet Nam echos in my mind.  We are in the midst of the Iraq-ification of the war, a war the insurgents are losing.  But a darker subtext may exist.  For all the current talk of the people of Iraq taking political charge of their lives and of the insurgents recognizing their long ago determined and righteous fate, it is possible the Bush administration is just covering its ass.

RINSE
But insurgencies are defeated not just militarily; they're defeated politically as well. And so you have to look also at the tremendous progress that the Iraqis are making on the political front, having held one election, writing a constitution now, and getting ready for elections again in December. The insurgency cannot continue to exist if it loses the Iraqi people; and with every day the Iraqi people see their future in their political process, not in some alternative. And since the only alternative that the so-called insurgents and the terrorists are actually offering is to continue carnage, to continue blowing up innocent Iraqis, including a few days ago, schoolchildren, that's not an alternative that the Iraqi people desire. So the most important blow to the insurgency is that they're losing the Iraqi people.
Rice Interview on CNN's Late Edition with [Wolf Blitzer]
June 19, 2005

Here is the dark version of what is going on: the 2006 mid term elections are  a year and a half away.  Bush's numbers continue to plummet for reasons Iraqi and otherwise.  The clamor for withdrawal of troops continues and Bush pulls them out.  While the media has paid little attention to the effects of war on the country and its population previously, now the media has unrestricted access to carnage and havoc the equal of before.  The Democrats get blamed for that, not the guy who got us there in the first place.  Are your tinfoil hats in place?

REPEAT
And so the Administration, I think, has said to the American people that it is a generational commitment to Iraq, but it is not a generational commitment in military terms; it is a commitment of our support to them, our political support, and an understanding that democracy takes time. But they're making very rapid progress.
In terms of the security situation, yes, there are a few terrorists and so-called insurgents who are plying their wares in a way that gets a lot of attention. They can create a lot of havoc, wreak a lot of havoc, create carnage against innocent Iraqis and against the coalition. But they, in time, are going to realize -- I think they may already realize -- that as this political process goes forward, as more and more Iraqis are involved every day in the politics, they are the outliers, they are the ones who are keeping the Iraqis from doing what they wish to do.
Rice Interview on Fox News Sunday with [Chris Wallace]
June 19, 2005

Maybe all this isn't about 2006, but just about Bush putting another mask on the repulsive face of a war he lied us all into, the media his willing pawns in a game where he would be king.  And?  It is an essential truth of propoganda that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will begin believe the lie for truth.  While the lie that the insurgent will relent and give up may work on the American people, the truth is that lie won't work on the insurgents. They have been giving up and been in their last throes for so long, some more delicate stomachs who can swallow few more lies may indeed throw up.  But that would be the last throw.

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