"Bush's True War Escalation Strategy - Getting from Iraq to Iran"

Ah, looks more and more like I'm going to win the 2004 bet I made with a friend that before Bush left office, he would attack Iran. On some things I just hate being correct:

The Progressive Daily Beacon: "Bush's True War Escalation Strategy - Getting from Iraq to Iran": "George W. Bush would like people to believe that he has somehow created a 'new plan' - a 'New Way Forward' in Iraq.

Interestingly enough, at least this time, Bush didn't fool anyone. According to the polls, 70 percent of the American people are deeply opposed to the President's recent recycled version of the same never-ending, never-changing plan. But the thing that the American people and, too, the Democratic Congress don't fully realize is that, George W. Bush doesn't care what anybody thinks. President Bush's escalation plan is nothing more than a stalling tactic. However, contrary to popular opinion, the President isn't only delaying the exit from Iraq, so that he can get out of office and leave the mess for the next chump. There is some truth to that, but there is much more to Bush prolonging an exit from Iraq than just his leaving office.

George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and the Neocrazies (Neoconservatives) who've created the mess in Iraq, know that the longer they stay there the more difficult it will be to ever get our military out. And not just out of Iraq - out of the Middle East.

They know, too, the one thing that can truly ensure a permanent U.S. military presence in the region would be for it to collapse into near chaos. And that is exactly why the President has chosen to escalate the war. He needs more time to build the case for attacking Iran and thus, making certain that our military remains in the Middle East for decades to come ... or at least the decade or two it will take to extract all the oil."