Disaster in Iraq, disaster at home

The big buzz now is about September, when Republicans are allegedly going to be expected to show some progress in Iraq with the surge. However, the real story will be here at home by that time, and if the Republicans will be in any shape to spin the inevitable foreign disaster while dealing with the domestic disaster.
Nearly every week now, someone in the Administration is resigning or having new investigations launched into their activities. The pace will only increase, and presumed loyalists will begin to spill their guts now that they see that the Adminstration's chief strategy seems to be scapegoating their own minions. Yeah, Abu Gharaib was really just all about a few bad enlisted personnel; no officers and certainly no White House staff, thank you very much. The firings of US Attorneys General were all plotted by out-of-control staffers with no involvement by a merely bewildered Gonzalez. The faulty Iraq intelligence seems to have been created by anyone who ceases to pay lip service to the Bush Lie Doctrine. The Katrina response was all poor Mr. Brown's fault, and not the people who hired a marginal stable manager to handle national disaster co-ordination.
And, strangely, the generals who were wonderful, competent, and experienced when Bush placed them in charge of Iraqi operations somehow became pathetic, clueless traitors when they stopped saying what Bush wanted to hear. Even now, Republicans who swore by every word Tenet said a few years ago now curse his name and denounce him as the cause of the baseless WMD intelligence, or at least until the next scapegoat comes along.
And they honestly think that nobody notices this pattern, or that even those that actually believe the scapegoats are responsible blame the Administration for failing to oversee the situations properly. Yep, the Bush Adminstration is the victim of a conspiracy of incompetent, disloyal, and devious rascals that worked their treachery right under the noses of the higher-ups without their knowledge. They're just victims, I guess. Uh-huh.
Oh yes, and it's also about the hate. Don't forget about the hate. Democrats are so obsessed with hatred of Bush that they somehow mysteriously created the circumstances for these bad apples to work their sinister schemes. And we all know that Republicans are mild, reasonable people who don't get all crazy at the mention of the name "Clinton" or became absolutely unglued in their Quest for "Truth" when it came to the Decider's predecessor. They don't throw around the word "treason" lightly or question people's patriotism for merely disagreeing with the President. Certainly their fundamentalist Christian doctrines are founded only on love and they feel no hatred toward any non-Judeo-Christians or gays, etc. And if they do hate, well, then it's completely understandable and justified because... well, because then it's in their interests to hate. Nothin' wrong with that.
Anyway, in the next four months enough is going to blow about the Bush Adminstration that the surge will be a minor problem. By that time, Petraeus, the hero and darling of the Neo-Cons, will have lost favour by contradicting something the Commander Guy said, anyway. The scant political capital that the Republicans have left will have been squandered on a largely symbolic "I'm the Boss" showdown over Iraq Appropriations.
As I said before, by September the definition of "success" in Iraq will have been drained of any real meaning and will essentially be "success is whatever the Decider says is success" and it won't look pretty. Republicans will crow about "victory" as Iraq becomes even worse than it is now. All hail the new dictator Allawi! Okay, so we won't have brought democracy, stability, rainbows or puppy dogs to Iraq like we planned, and Iraq really isn't our ally in the War on Terror, and we didn't get the oil, either....but we won! The Decider said so! And since he's the President, he's infallible and any hint of disagreement with Him is treason. Besides, you want to win, right? Just don't ask any questions and cheer when you're supposed to cheer and we can all claim a great victory! Otherwise you have to admit we lost and that doesn't poll well.
The reason Bush and his fiends will continue on while their Administration collapses, their war collapses, their party's election hopes collapse, etc. is because they never plan for anything but the best possible outcome. They will go down in profound disgrace and haul all of their loyalists with them, still proudly confident that they will win the day. And there will be much rejoicing...but not by them.