The early blog coverage of these comments by the president seems focused on his uh, interesting, take on the relationship between elections and civil wars. For an example, see Atrios. Coming in the wake of Peter Galbraith's comments that before the war Bush lacked an understanding that there were 2 main sects of Muslims in Iraq, this reading of the president's words reinforces the widely-held belief that our leader is poorly informed and out of touch with the politics of Iraq.
But looking at the orginal link (to Think Progress's transcript of the president's words) the bigger story here isn't the bumbling, poorly-informed president (that's old news) - it's the bumbling, poorly-informed president who wants to apparently put US troops straight in the middle of an Iraqi civil war.
And it’s going to be up to the Maliki government, with U.S. help, to use the trained forces and eventually a trained police force to take care of those who are trying to foment sectarian violence.
Am I reading that wrong? It looks to me like that's what he's saying. And that chills me to the bone.
Posted by armand at August 7, 2006 01:25 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Iraq | War