Baghdad-Will it be George Bush's Waterloo ?

Congratulations to George Bush for turning an initial military victory into a grand failure in Iraq and particularly Baghdad. When the war was started the Coalition troops were able to roll into and capture Iraq in a matter of days because of the saturation bombing. But the situation in Baghdad now is very dire, after more than 3 years of occupation. The Americans are presently mired in a deeper civil war and are again using warplanes to re-capture Baghdad. May be George Bush should have learned the lesson from his father 'to quit when he was ahead'.

And now Bush is committing more troops especially with the mission to re-secure Baghdad. They are in for the toughest fight of their lives, in the mean streets of Baghdad. They better watch their back too, because many of their so-called Iraqi friends from the Shiite community swear allegiance to Iran, the arch-enemy of USA. George Bush could not have designed a worse hell for his troops.

There is also speculation that USA is playing out a grander plot to destabilise the Middle East and gain more influence in the oil-rich region to ensure supplies to USA. But it is a stretch to credit George Bush with authorship of this idea and more so the ability to bring this about. He is doing it all the wrong way and it is not possible to cause such a destabilisation programme with so many enemies in that area like Iran, Palestinians etc. America does not have the resources or determination or stamina to engage in such a long drawn-out scheme. Moreover the world has moved on and people have become smarter with better priorities and values. Countries like UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and even Saudi Arabia are ruled by intelligent rulers. This scheme is not going to be successful.

All that will happen is USA troops will get more entangled in the street fighting and either America will escalate the war with more aerial bombings or the Democrats and Public Opinion will force George Bush to beat a retreat and re-enact the Vietnam pull out. I am praying for the latter outcome as early as possible.