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Bushies’ confusion on Iraq elections
Edwards (via Kos) excoriates Bush and Administration officials for offering competing accounts of the upcoming Iraqi elections. Dubya had said the elections will be held in January, but Cheney says that Iraqis themselves must make the decision. Rumsfeld, meanwhile, in an almost-admission that the Mission might not be quite so Accomplished, has said that only about two thirds or so of Iraq will be holding elections (or maybe he just means that Katherine Harris will be running the show). Armitage appears to have recently disagreed.
None of this is really surprising, because Bush is far more interested in using a putative Iraqi transition to democracy to curry political favor here than in actually committing the U.S. to the nation-building he denounced in 2000.
(Kos is a partisan blog, but there’s no denying that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Armitage are telling four different stories.)
[update] Looks like I messed up when posting and left commenting closed. The thread should be open now. [/update]
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