Create an Account
username: password:
 
  MemeStreams Logo

MemeStreams Discussion

search


This page contains all of the posts and discussion on MemeStreams referencing the following web page: U.S. Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in Iraq. You can find discussions on MemeStreams as you surf the web, even if you aren't a MemeStreams member, using the Threads Bookmarklet.

U.S. Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in Iraq
by Neoteric at 11:42 am EDT, Aug 14, 2005

The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in Iraq, recognizing that the United States will have to settle for far less progress than originally envisioned during the transition due to end in four months, according to U.S. officials in Washington and Baghdad.

The United States no longer expects to see a model new democracy, a self-supporting oil industry or a society in which the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges, U.S. officials say.

"What we expected to achieve was never realistic given the timetable or what unfolded on the ground," said a senior official involved in policy since the 2003 invasion. "We are in a process of absorbing the factors of the situation we're in and shedding the unreality that dominated at the beginning."

So iraq's a myth and so is sub $70/barrel oil prices.

So do they have to redact the "mission accomplished" image?

This infact a good article I'm just too mad to write up a good thing about it.


U.S. Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in Iraq
by k at 1:11 pm EDT, Aug 14, 2005

The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in Iraq, recognizing that the United States will have to settle for far less progress than originally envisioned during the transition due to end in four months, according to U.S. officials in Washington and Baghdad.

The United States no longer expects to see a model new democracy, a self-supporting oil industry or a society in which the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges, U.S. officials say.

"What we expected to achieve was never realistic given the timetable or what unfolded on the ground," said a senior official involved in policy since the 2003 invasion. "We are in a process of absorbing the factors of the situation we're in and shedding the unreality that dominated at the beginning."

That's fucking great! I mean, you know, all the dead people probably don't agree, but dude, it'll all be worth it later when they no longer live under Saddamn *or* US guns. Total fucking anarchy will be much better for the people... I mean, anarchy is a form of freedom, right?


 
 
Powered By Industrial Memetics