The Decider

upyernoz:

last january bush claims he told the iraqi government that it must meet all of the benchmarks and warned maliki that "America's commitment is not open-ended." so since even the white house reports that there wasn't even satisfactory progress towards achieving more than half of the benchmarks, bush announces that america's commitment to iraq will be open-ended, or as he put it to extend "beyond my presidency". meanwhile, bush's aids are talking about "the korea model", referencing the american military presence in south korea that has lasted for the past half century and will probably extend through the rest of my lifetime. it doesn't get any more open-ended than that.

in short, last january, bush set certain benchmarks, said they must be met and proclaimed that the u.s. will not be in iraq forever, especially if the benchmarks weren't met. last night, bush barely mentioned the benchmarks, which were mostly unmet, and announced to the world that the u.s. has no intention of leaving ever.

so much for accountability.

You know, I wonder sometimes if the Republican candidates for President ever think, "If I do get elected, am I ever fucked."