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GEORGE W. AS GEORGE WASHINGTON, CROSSING THE TIGRIS

Does George W. have the stuff George Washington had when he crossed the Delaware and defeated the Hessians and then the Red Coats?  

To wit, can George W. emerge from a frigid winter in the approval ratings and cross the Tigris River to stage a surprise attack on the foreign fighters and blood-stained sectarians in Bagdad who are standing in the way of a U. S. diplomatic victory in Iraq? 

When he himself should lead the daring diplomatic assault on Bagdad, what is he doing being guided by W’s like “watching” and “waiting” around headquarters, uncharacteristically anxious about interfering in Iraq’s internal affairs, at this late date, while he pontificates about progress and frets about defeat?

Can he sense that now is the moment to get his butt over there himself, instead of relying on forward scouts like Condi Rice, and sit down with the divisive Iraqi parliament to hammer out a new government – or turn the intransigent members over to the tender mercies of their own justifiably disappointed people and the nascent civil war the deadlocked parliament is helping to provide a continuing occasion for?

The American army, now much like the Continental Army, has bloody feet, not for lack of shoes in the snow, but for lack of adequate defenses against IED’s.   It is time for George W. to lead the troops out of the hopeless quagmire that has engulfed them during the long winter of their discontent, so their bravery can help achieve the victory this nation has so valorously merited and the Iraqi people so desperately need. 

Such a victory, like the original George W.’s, will renew the hopes of this now demoralized nation and persuade current and potential allies that victory can be ours and that now is the time to recommit or commit to the misguided but now inextricable struggle for a free, independent, and peaceful Iraq.

If he dares not sally forth to the Iraqi parliament, then let him invite its members to meet with him somewhere outside of Iraq, much like Roosevelt journeyed to Yalta to meet with Chamberlain and Stalin to wrap up World War II.

And let him put aside the niceties of concern that the new Iraqi government will be reviled as the creation of the U. S.  There’s no escape from that condemnation, no matter who gets the rule of law in place.  The important thing is to get that government going.

The precedents for brilliant action are in place, and if he takes the tide at its height, he may even reduce, although he may never eliminate, the skyrocketing number of times he is variously reviled on his own continent as George Tush.

So come on, George W.  Show us what that W. stands for.  Make it Washington, not waffling. 

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