I had a hell of a time finding this article that seems to be hidden from all the search engines. It quotes a retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor describing Bush's execution and expansion of the WOT into Iran, as a "blunder of Hitlerian proportions."
Macgregor likened the policy of fighting all three Iraqi anti-occupation forces at once to Adolf Hitler's insistence on continuing a two-front war against the Soviet Union and the Western powers during World War II, which is widely regarded as having ensured the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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A funny thing happened on the way to the front...
Bush and his Right Wing Media machine of course have been banging the war drum about how bad and dangerous Shi'ite Iran is, yet the insurgents are aligned with... Sunni? Is Bush now to have us believe that Shi'ite Iran is supporting Sunni insurgents? And this helps Iran and the flow of refugees into Iran how exactly? Is this the same Shi'ite Iran that is aligned with the Mahdi Army which is represented by at least 30 members of the Iraqi parliament??? That we put in power????
"It is ideology pushing violence to extremes," Macgregor says of the latest turn in Bush's Iraq policy. "They are trying to reverse the damage they have already done to themselves by having built up a Shi’ite state and army. But it is too late and it is bound to be counterproductive."
So if we are fighting Sunni, even though they have turned against al-Qaeda, and threatening Iran which is Shi'ite, and the Mahdi army, also Shi'ite, which is now "much more than just a force, it's a movement. And it has mobilized the great disenfranchised, impoverished Shia population." Who by the way are "also violently opposed to al-Qaeda," then whose side are we on?
And if we are not with the Mahdi army who fights al-Qaeda, then doesn't that make us on the side of the terrorists?
Bush has created a "War on all fronts" and as Macgregor states:
The Sadrist "genie is out of the bottle", he warned, and "it can't be put back in".
Not to go all heebie geebie on you, but it looks like Nostradamus may be right again, and WWIII is on the way. Fortunately he says that after all is said and done, the Western powers come out on the "winners" side. Unfortunately I think Bush's idea of winning is living on a planet with global nuclear fallout, as long as the bomb didn't go off on our side.