Bush’s Heroes

November 27th, 2006 - Tags: George W. Bush, Iraq war - Comments Off

Increasingly, it appears that George W. Bush is turning control of his Iraq strategy away from the hawkish neoconservatives of his first term, and towards realist, moderate conservatives from his father’s administration. While the neo-cons had great hopes for Iraq becoming the democratic keystone of a dramatic new world order of world peace, the realists tended to be against the war in the first place, and are now most concerned with how to obtain a quick and easy “peace with honor,” a la Vietnam.

More and more characters continue to pop out of the woodwork. Bob Woodward famously reported that Henry Kissinger is now a top advisor to Vice President Cheney, James Baker is now heading a bipartisan Iraq “strategy” forum, and 1980′s-era CIA director Robert Gates has been appointed as Bush’s new defense secretary.

All this has neo-cons like Christopher Hitchens worried. This cartoon was heavily inspired by a piece he recently wrote entitled “look who’s cutting and running now,”

which you can read here.