More on the possible "tipping point" (for Bush) on the Iraq War

If there's really is something new brewing among Cheney's and Bush's inner circle on Iraq War policy, the rapidly increasing vulnerability to the Green Zone in Baghdad may be a big part of the reason. When the supposedly more secure spot in the whole country is no longer secure, even Dark Lord Cheney should be able to understand that's a bad sign. Even if escalating the war to include Iran is his preferred solution.

Juan Cole discusses the Green Zone's situation in a 07/11/07 post at his Informed Comment blog. He links to a Los Angeles Times story (Shelling in Green Zone kills 3 by Molly Hennessy-Fiske 07/11/07) that reports on Green Zone attacks, including the recent kidnapping of the Iraqi police official who was Iraqi head of security for the Green Zone:

In other words, the security situation in the Green Zone is spiralling down at an alarming pace, and the guerrillas have such good inside knowledge that they can kidnap the very person responsible for security in it, as he drives in Jadiriya. That, my friends, is an inside job. And such an inside job doesn't bode well for future security in the Green Zone. For one thing, presumably they are "debriefing" Col. Hussein [the kidnapped security official] as we speak, looking for weak points.

Bush in his speech in Cleveland yesterday didn't sound like he was planning to pull out anytime soon. He pretended that in Iraq we're fighting "al Qaeda, the same people that attacked us in America".

(He also made the odd comment, "Some in America don't believe we're at war." Who the heck is he talking about?)

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