What is victory? Why won't Bush listen to anyone? Why can't he understand adding 20K more troops won't make a difference? Why does he want to send more of our young men and women into a meat grinder?

I hear questions like these from people all the time, they just don't get why Bush is such an idiot. It does seem that Bush is operating with recklessness and stupidity and doesn't have the capacity to understand that Iraq is not winnable and his "go-it-alone" decisions will only dig us in deeper and cause more loss of life.

Trying to answer the questions under the premise that Bush Administration truly wants to help the Iraqis have a working Democracy and live in freedom is folly - one can only conclude Bush and the rest of them ARE a bunch of incompetent idiots. But incompetence is a convenient crutch. They are far from incompetent and we must remember what the real unspoken goals of the Bush Administration were when they invaded Iraq and that those goals haven't changed.

Regardless of all the reasons given, the Bush Administration invaded Iraq to destabilize it and seize its resources, giving us permanence in the middle east. From there, they plan to use Iraq as a base to further spread destabilization into other countries like Iran and Syria. Chaos in the middle east is the MO of the Bush Administration and under the direction of the neocons, the United States is nothing more than invaders and thieves who care little about loss of life, be it Americans, Iraqis or anyone else. PNAC designed the plan years ago and anyone who thinks it's been scrapped is dead wrong. With them, the end always justifies the means, no matter how ugly it gets. This sort of thinking feeds into Bush's ego, which is probably why he continues to listen to them and often talks about his legacy being judged years from now. He believes he will go down in history as a great conquerer.

Makes it a bit easier to answer the questions knowing their plan:

What is victory? Victory is defined as expansion of the war which will ultimately lead to dominance of the middle east. Their version of victory only applies to them - does not apply to our military or any of us.

Why won't Bush listen to anyone? He is listening - to the neocons at the American Enterprise Institute.

Why can't he understand adding 20K more troops won't make a difference? He does understand; in fact, what he's hoping for is an escalation to have an excuse to go into Iran. Withdrawing our troops isn't part of the plan.

Why does he want to send more of our young men and women into a meat grinder? Because the end justifies the means, and the lives of our troops means nothing to him. They are insignificant, as are all of us.

And that's why when Bush talked of reducing our dependence on foreign oil by 20% over the next 10 years, Cheney sat behind him openly smirking. Even he was struck by the absurdity, knowing full well they have no intention of such a thing.