{"id":1898,"date":"2004-05-24T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T04:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2004-05-24T23:47:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-25T04:47:00","slug":"rebooting_the_occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/05\/rebooting_the_occupation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding Iraq: Rebooting the occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/bush_speech.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\">Now you see it\u2026<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>After weeks of George W. Bush taking it on the chin (both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Farticles%2FA51447-2004May24.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">literally<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Farticles%2FA52151-2004May24.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">figuratively<\/a>), and after setbacks and backtracks on the ground in Iraq, last night\u2019s speech by President Bush was intended to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com%2Fpg%2F04146%2F321655.stm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reboot<\/a> the occupation, hoping that people will forget the past and muster some hope for the future.  With 64% of Americans believing that there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Farticles%2FA52151-2004May24.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">no clear plan<\/a> for Iraq, Bush\u2019s five-step plan offered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Farticles%2FA53141-2004May24.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">no new initiatives<\/a> (indeed, when was the US <i>not<\/i> pursuing any of them?) and plenty of references to the War on Terror, but there some clever moves that should have been done at the start \u2013 like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com%2Fearlyed%2Fearly_usa0524.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">razing<\/a> the Abu Ghraib prison to the ground.  At home, Bush has circled the wagons, withdrawn to his cocoon of his war cabinet, and is taking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com%2F2004%2F05%2F24%2Fpolitics%2F24LETT.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">no questions<\/a>.   The problem for anyone who feels that the Bush administration should have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjonline.com%2Fstories%2F052404%2Fopi_sazman.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">hell to pay<\/a> for all the lies, miscalculations, and manipulation that led to the war is that it isn\u2019t worth having things <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Fnation%2Fla-fg-iraqassess23may23%2C1%2C3465741.story%3Fcoll%3Dla-home-headlines\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">get worse<\/a> in Iraq to insure Bush\u2019s defeat in the November elections.   So even with handpicked Iraqi leaders getting taken out every now and then (or <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com%2Furl%3Fntc%3D0M2A0%26q%3Dhttp:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Farticles%2FA52200-2004May24.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">self-immolating<\/a>, as is the case with the Ahmed Chalabi, the man everyone can <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com%2Furl%3Fntc%3D0M2A1%26q%3Dhttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk%2FIraq%2FStory%2F0%2C2763%2C1224064%2C00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">agree on<\/a> to dislike), the US is continuing with its \u201cHail Mary\u201d (er, I mean \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d) pass that is the June 30th <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk%2Firaq%2Fstory%2F0%2C12956%2C1224005%2C00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">handover<\/a> of power to President TBD.  And despite the pleasure it would give some to see things go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com%2Fstories%2F561%2F4793841.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">really, really bad<\/a> for President Bush, everyone hopes at some level that this reboot of the occupation will work.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denying any responsibility and admitting no mistakes, President Bush hopes to refocus attention from the setbacks in Iraq to the upcoming transfer of power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rebuilding Iraq: Rebooting the occupation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Denying any responsibility and admitting no mistakes, President Bush hopes to refocus attention from the setbacks in Iraq to the upcoming transfer of power.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/05\/rebooting_the_occupation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rebuilding Iraq: Rebooting the occupation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Denying any responsibility and admitting no mistakes, President Bush hopes to refocus attention from the setbacks in Iraq to the upcoming transfer of power.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/05\/rebooting_the_occupation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"altmuslim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2004-05-25T04:47:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/bush_speech.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shahed Amanullah\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shahed Amanullah\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/05\/rebooting_the_occupation\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/05\/rebooting_the_occupation\/\",\"name\":\"Rebuilding Iraq: Rebooting the occupation\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2004-05-25T04:47:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2004-05-25T04:47:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#\/schema\/person\/0e0efbb645cc461c721083358f82f945\"},\"description\":\"Denying any responsibility and admitting no mistakes, President Bush hopes to refocus attention from the setbacks in Iraq to the upcoming transfer of power.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/05\/rebooting_the_occupation\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/05\/rebooting_the_occupation\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/05\/rebooting_the_occupation\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Rebuilding Iraq: Rebooting the occupation\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\",\"name\":\"altmuslim\",\"description\":\"Global perspectives on Muslim life, politics &amp; 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