KRUGMAN: Who you gonna believe, the president or your lying eyes?

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Who you gonna believe, the president or your lying eyes?

Now Mr. Bush has grudgingly sort- of admitted that things aren’t going well — but he says his “new way forward” will fix everything.

So it’s still the Texas strategy: the war’s architects are trying to keep their failed venture going as long as possible.

The Hail Mary aspect — the off chance that somehow, things really will turn out all right — is the least of their motivations. The real intent is a form of looting. I’m not talking mainly about old-fashioned war profiteering, although there is no question that profiteering is taking place on an epic scale. No, I’m saying that the hawks want to keep this war going because it’s to their personal and political benefit.

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Mr. Bush calls his critics “irresponsible,” saying that they don’t have an alternative to his strategy. But they do: setting a timetable for withdrawal, so that we can cut our losses, and trying to save what can be saved. It isn’t a strategy for victory because that’s no longer an option. It’s a strategy for acknowledging reality.

more at:
http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2007/01/paul-krugman-texas-strategy.html

[Nimrod2005]

1. We love Paul, so right on, all the time.....nt

[applegrove]

2. He never misses. K&R

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Liberated Krugman

Please click here.

[gratuitous]

4. Nobody knows for sure

This is the formulation Bush and his supporters are reduced to. They can't point to a track record of wise decisions. They can't create a catalog of successes in Iraq. And "trust me" seems to be on its last go-round. So now their best argument is "You don't know for sure that this won't work."

In response, I say to the warmongers: Yeah, I don't know for sure that if you stick a fork into an electrical outlet, you won't poop out a pill that cures cancer. Here's a whole box of silverware, there's an outlet; get jabbing! Unless you really like cancer and you want to see more people die horrible, painful, lingering deaths from cancer.

If it weren't for all the people who are going to die, this whole episode would just be so pathetic.

[Quantess]

5. Well said, Krugman.

Recommended.

[Rex]

6. Not so sure if it in their best political interests to keep going.

Shortsighted profiteers yes, but I believe they have done more damage to their political party than anyone could ever dream about doing. I mean, Bush and Cheney alone have turned Republicanism on its head and now everyone equates the word with evil or corruption. Basically they have done what Newt did to the word liberal.

Bush will fall off the cliff and drag us along for the one-way ride.