{"id":3981,"date":"2007-11-09T11:08:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T17:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2017-05-21T03:33:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T09:33:08","slug":"the-bush-administration-plans-to-blame-you-for-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/the-bush-administration-plans-to-blame-you-for-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bush Administration Plans to Blame You for Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>By <\/strong>William Astore<\/strong>, <\/strong>Tomdispatch.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The world’s finest military launches a highly coordinated shock-and-awe attack that shows enormous initial progress. There’s talk of the victorious troops being home for Christmas. But the war unexpectedly drags on. As fighting persists into a third, and then a fourth year, voices are heard calling for negotiations, even “peace without victory.” Dismissing such peaceniks and critics as defeatists, a conservative and expansionist regime — led by a figurehead who often resorts to simplistic slogans and his Machiavellian sidekick who is considered the brains behind the throne — calls for one last surge to victory. Unbeknownst to the people on the home front, however, this duo has already prepared a seductive and self-exculpatory myth in case the surge fails.<\/p>\n

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The United States in 2007? No, Wilhelmine Germany in 1917 and 1918, as its military dictators, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and his loyal second, General Erich Ludendorff, pushed Germany toward defeat and revolution in a relentless pursuit of victory in World War I. Having failed with their surge strategy on the Western Front in 1918, they nevertheless succeeded in deploying a stab-in-the-back myth, or Dolchsto\u00c3\u0178legende<\/em>, that shifted blame for defeat from themselves and Rightist politicians to Social Democrats and others allegedly responsible for losing the war by their failure to support the troops at home.<\/p>\n

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The German Army knew it was militarily defeated in 1918. But this was an inconvenient truth for Hindenburg and the Right, so they crafted a new “truth”: that the troops were “unvanquished in the field.” So powerful did these words become that they would be engraved in stone on many a German war memorial.<\/p>\n

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It’s a myth we ourselves are familiar with. As South Vietnam was collapsing in 1975, Army Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr., speaking to a North Vietnamese counterpart, claimed the U.S. military had never lost a battle in Vietnam. Perhaps so, the NVA colonel replied, “but it is also irrelevant.” Summers recounts his conversation approvingly, without irony, in his book On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War<\/em>. For him, even if we lost the war, our Army proved itself “unbeatable.”<\/p>\n

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