Bush told we’re not winning in Iraq

According to Knight Ridder, Bush’s intelligence agencies, including Porter Goss’s presumably more reliable and loyal CIA, are telling the president that U.S. forces are not currently prevailing against the Iraq insurgency. Significantly, the point made over and over in the article is not that our forces are failing to defeat the insurgency, but that our forces are failing to suppress the insurgency in time for the elections. As I’ve said a hundred times, there is no sign, either in our actions on the ground or in the administrations’s statements, that our aim in Iraq is victory. Rather our aim is to hold elections. We’ve placed the cart of democratization before the horse of military victory, and where this will all end up I have no idea.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at December 18, 2004 02:05 AM | Send