It is apparent that the only way to win the war in Iraq is to bomb the living daylights out of everything. If we kill everyone, there will no longer be an insurgency. Gee, maybe we should just get it over quickly with "nucular" bombardment.
What a sad and sorry situation. It is my understanding that the troops refused to go on patrol is because their equipment is unsafe, and our sorry ass government won't spend the money to upgrade or fix anything. I'm wondering what $1.3 billion dollars has been spent on. Obviously, it wasn't the troops. Me thinks someone, Halliburton maybe, is getting very, very wealthy of this war.
Now, we're in a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. I'm leaning towards the damned if you don't scenario. In other words, rather than stay in Iraq to hold off a civil war, which seems inevitable anyway, just bring the troops home NOW. Sure, we will have lost, but there is nothing anymore to gain. We've already lost. It's an endless quagmire. Bush lied, and people died. There were no terrorists in Iraq till we so rudely opened the gates for them.
Saddam was built by US interests and money. Then, when we decided that oil must be optained because of this impending peak flow, the US decided that it's time to take him down. When the lies didn't hold up, they said we are engaged in a war because Saddam is such a bad guy. Excuse me. Killing begets killing begets killing. The atrocities committed by Saddam are now starting to pale in comparison to the havoc the US has wrought. Thousands and tthousands of people are dead. More are dying every day. The depleted uranium that the US dropped all over the country will cause death and dispair for years and years to come. The place is a radioactive zone. We did it in East Europe, and now we did it again in Iraq. I'm thinking WAR CRIMES, here, perpetrated by the US. Very scary thought, given that the US thinks it's sime kind of above-the-law international force.
I'm wondering......... Which country shall we invade next? Iran would qualify. North Korea would qualify. Hmmmmm.................... Lots of bad guys out there, it's hard to know when to stop. Kind of addictive, I think.
Thanks, Bahu, for posting this. The more we continue to post about these crimes and atrocities, the more people will know. After all, the mainstream press is NOT doing its job here in good ol' US of A. Not when we have the media owned by single minded neocon interests who daily decide what and what not to air, in the interest of protecting our administration. Pree press? Not anymore, boys and girls. But, I digress..............................
