A BIG Flip-Flop By Another Name

The facts are that the Bush administration has decided the Iraq war will kill them at the polls and therefore immediate changes are necessary. But a Republican regime that is never wrong and is as immutable as the Pope cannot change. So the Prez says he isn’t changing strategies in Iraq, he’s changing tactics. And the difference is? The Encarta World English Dictionary says: “A tactic is the science of organizing and maneuvering forces in battle to achieve a limited or immediate aim; also called a strategy. A strategy is the science or art of planning and conducting a war or a military campaign; also called a tactic.” Nevermind, the psychopath in the White House says, "Our goal is clear and unchanging: Our goal is victory…what is changing are the tactics we use to achieve that goal. Our commanders on the ground are constantly adjusting their approach to stay ahead of the enemy, particularly in Baghdad." PARTICULARLY IN BAGHDAD? RIGHT! Baghdad, where the war has totally gone to hell and where the US has been ineffective and useless and where death and destruction is unremitting day and night, and where the enemy has constantly stayed ahead of US forces from Day One up to and including today. When the New York Times ran a story yesterday explaining that the Bush administration had drafted a timetable (Yikes! That forbidden word!), White House spokesperson Nicole Guillemard issued a statement that the Times’s account wasn’t accurate, but she didn’t say what was inaccurate. On Saturday, the Prez said in his radio address, “We will continue to be flexible, and make every necessary change to prevail in this struggle. Our goal in Iraq is clear and unchanging.” That’s about the size of it. The Bush administration is going to change (or seem to change) whatever it needs to change in Iraq so that voters will more wholeheartedly embrace the killing of American soldiers, the devastation, the failure of the Bush administration and the plan for the US to occupy Iraq until the year 3000. But the Bush administration has no intention of changing anything.