Five Quick Shots At The Democratic Soul

1) Bush had no plan - Perhaps one of the longest lived refrains from the Democrats has been, "Bush had no plan". Technically this is not true since the plan was to win the war against Sadam and then quickly draw down the troops as Tommy Franks was arranging to do when he retired. When Bush said, "mission accomplished" all the Democrats were stone cold silent because, to all the world, it seemed like the Bush "plan" to spread democracy around the world was working magnificently. "Jon Stewart", often cited as the number one news source for Democrats. said, "I may have to apologize to this guy". But, as we learned in The History Boys, "history is one fucking thing after another". The Bush plan did work and then began to fail dramatically over time as a new reality evolved. Democrats began to pretend to themselves that they knew what the outcome would be all along, despite their sheepish silence at "mission accomplished". At this point Democrats are hysterically, continuously, and quite neurotically congratulating themselves on their perfect hindsight while accusing Bush of being a liar about what they have convinced themselves, they knew all along?

If we then fast forward to the Democratic debates we see the Democratic psychosis growing. When Hillary was pressed beyond her hippie roots about her plan for the war, beyond blaming Bush that is, she angrily shouted, "this is George Bush's war", as if to say, "hey, don't look at me for a way out of Bush's mess just because I want to succeed him". In truth, while it is Bush's war now, it will be hers the second she is elected. The astute questioner wanted to know Hillary's plan but she had none, except to blame Bush, despite years of blaming Bush for having no plan? One day she wants to withdraw the troops now, the next she wants to begin to withdraw the troops at some point soon, the next she wants to withdraw many of them but leave many them scattered throughout the region to contain the situation, and some days she wants to rescind her authorization for the war. All that, of course, is not really a plan, and in any case is probably exactly the plan Bush will pursue once the "surge" is finally declared a failure in September. So in the end, Hillary's plan is really Bush's plan.

But maybe Iraq is just too tough for her to come up with a plan, let alone an adequate plan? Certainly, though, since planning is so important to Democrats, she has a plan for the easier situations that might arise during her administration. For example, what would she do if

1) a genocide, after her withdrawal from Iraq, reaches 100,000, 500,000 or 1,000,000 Sunni Muslims?
2) Iran takes control of all the non Kurdish oil in Iraq?
3) Turkey invades Kurdistan
4) Iran learns how to make nuclear weapons?
5) Saudi Arabia decides it too needs nuclear weapons?
6) Shite Iran/Iraq wages and wins a war against Sunni Saudi Arabia?
7) Iran nukes Israel?
8) Hamas attacks Israel from Lebanon and Israel nukes back?
9) The oil supply is cut off, income drops by 75% in the West, millions die in China and India
10) al-Qaeda launches a