October 2, 2004

Orders have gone out from here to the Pentagon mandating the use of “swift and maximum force” to at least get back one of the centers of resistance from the militant Iraqis. This means, according to my source, that “we bomb the living shit out of them and occupy the rubble.” The problem is that many civilians will die and their infrastructure will be even more interdicted and destroyed. Bush has to do something to try to convince the growing doubts in American voters that he actually knows what he is doing. Which he does not. The military are afraid that if they fail, before the election, Bush will blame them for the failure when they know that a really significant victory there is completely impossible. Oh well, what are a few hundred dead Iraqi children and hundreds of homes flattened if it means the Bush will be back in power for another four disastrous years? Cheers!