Saturday, June 16, 2007

Journal: Bush administration over the policy on Iraq.

Nearly a month ago, President Bush asked for the new budget that is going to be needed to keep on suporting the war on Iraq and Afganistan. Unfourtunatelly, the House of Representatives of the United States approved 100 billion dollars in new funds for this war.
In 2004, a year and half Bush began the war, his policy was challenged directly by Jhon Kelly, his democrat oponent. But Bush was reelected by a clear margin of votes. Two years later, the public opinion has shifted. Actually, it suports the democrats. And Bush should be called upon to pay attention to the democrats and the general public opinion. This is necessary, taking into account the muddled political situation that US next year elections have created. Only then, the real course of the problem will be set.
During this month, Bush has tried to stir up support for the war by saying that al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is plotting against the US and that he is attempting to established a base of operation in Iraq. The president of the United States also explained that after eluding an US manhunt, Bin Laden has been isolated and driven into hidding. Bush added that if he knew where Bin Laden is he would bring him to justice.
The fact is that even without a Bin Laden's cell in Iraq, the violence will continue. President Bush predicted a bloody summer for US troops and Iraq civilians as rebels and al Qaeda step up attacks. And for him, the aim of this attacks is to influence the US debate on his war strategy.
Recently, a suicide car bomb drove into a funeral, killing at least 27 people in a restive province west of Baghdad. Also, in the Iraqui capital, gunmen stopped a bus and shoot dead all the 11 passengers, then, they planted a bomb that exploted when the police arrived killing two people and wonding four. This attacks came despite of a major security crackdown focused on Baghdad, which is the epicenter of sectarian violence between majority Shiites and minority Sunnis. Police said that the funeral at which one of the attacks took place was for a local bussinessman opposed to Sunni Islamist al Qaeda and that campaigns of bombing and shooting against Sunni leaders, politicians and others who have formed an alliance against Shiites will probably going to be planned by the same group responsible for the attack.
Because of this violence between the parties of the same Iraq, thousand of US and Iraq troops have been desployed and are ready to continue fighting.
Returning back to the US, although the democrat party has been gaining support the world will have to wait for the next year elections in tha States, because only that elections can set out the war's future course.

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