Fan, meet shit...Shit, this is fan
10/18/06 09:58
The wheels
are
really coming off
in Iraq now. Even CNN appears to have seen enough. As
I am writing this the headline on the
international edition
reads
Bloodshed
Buries Iraq Hopes. I think
that sums it up pretty well. The first three
paragraphs of the story are pretty damning:
(CNN) -- Early in the Iraq conflict, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dismissed insurgents as "dead-enders." In 2004, President Bush said the battle against these fighters was "turning a corner." In 2005, he described a "turning point," and Vice President Dick Cheney said the insurgency was in its "last throes."
Now, those descriptions lie buried beneath thousands of bodies -- U.S. troops, Iraqi police, and everyday citizens tortured and killed simply because of their religious sect.
The U.S. death toll is well above 2,700, and the coalition death toll just passed 3,000. Last month 776 U.S. troops were wounded -- the highest number in nearly two years. There is no sign the insurgency is waning, and no evidence to suggest it will any time soon.
Dubya is desperately trying to keep the blinders on his remaining supporters long enough to get past the mid-term elections, but I’m optimistic that the American people are starting to see through this moron. I’m fairly confident that the Democrats are about to take over control of Congress. It’s what they do with that control (and the accompanying subpoena power) when they get it that gives me doubts. I’m not confident at all that they have the balls to end the insanity.
I would love to see some real, very public investigations conducted into PNAC and the whole selling of the Iraq invasion. I firmly believe that several of these people belong in prison. Back in the ‘90s they came up with a plan to invade Iraq and install a US friendly government and military bases from which to exert influence and “protect US interests” (that’s PNAC for control the oil flow) in the region. They state in one of their documents that it would take a triggering event such as another Pearl Harbor to be able to pull it off. 9/11 was just the excuse they were looking for. After that all it took was a year-long scare campaign to conflate Iraq and al-Qaida in the mind’s of anyone not paying attention (sadly that’s a large part of America) and just like that, we own Iraq. Remember the banner on the aircraft carrier? Mission Accomplished. If you look at it from their point of view, it’s true. They have accomplished what they set out to do. Military bases? Check. Puppet government? Check. Secure the oil? Check.
That’s why they haven’t done anything since. They didn’t have a plan for withdrawing the troops after the invasion because they don’t intend to withdraw. The ongoing carnage reinforces their claims that we can’t leave now. They wrapped it in the flag and sold it as spreading freedom and democracy and protecting us from Saddam and his WMDs, but the truth is, this invasion was about empire building and I think it’s criminal. The US invaded a sovereign nation for economic reasons. That isn’t democracy, it’s capitalism run amok.
(CNN) -- Early in the Iraq conflict, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dismissed insurgents as "dead-enders." In 2004, President Bush said the battle against these fighters was "turning a corner." In 2005, he described a "turning point," and Vice President Dick Cheney said the insurgency was in its "last throes."
Now, those descriptions lie buried beneath thousands of bodies -- U.S. troops, Iraqi police, and everyday citizens tortured and killed simply because of their religious sect.
The U.S. death toll is well above 2,700, and the coalition death toll just passed 3,000. Last month 776 U.S. troops were wounded -- the highest number in nearly two years. There is no sign the insurgency is waning, and no evidence to suggest it will any time soon.
Dubya is desperately trying to keep the blinders on his remaining supporters long enough to get past the mid-term elections, but I’m optimistic that the American people are starting to see through this moron. I’m fairly confident that the Democrats are about to take over control of Congress. It’s what they do with that control (and the accompanying subpoena power) when they get it that gives me doubts. I’m not confident at all that they have the balls to end the insanity.
I would love to see some real, very public investigations conducted into PNAC and the whole selling of the Iraq invasion. I firmly believe that several of these people belong in prison. Back in the ‘90s they came up with a plan to invade Iraq and install a US friendly government and military bases from which to exert influence and “protect US interests” (that’s PNAC for control the oil flow) in the region. They state in one of their documents that it would take a triggering event such as another Pearl Harbor to be able to pull it off. 9/11 was just the excuse they were looking for. After that all it took was a year-long scare campaign to conflate Iraq and al-Qaida in the mind’s of anyone not paying attention (sadly that’s a large part of America) and just like that, we own Iraq. Remember the banner on the aircraft carrier? Mission Accomplished. If you look at it from their point of view, it’s true. They have accomplished what they set out to do. Military bases? Check. Puppet government? Check. Secure the oil? Check.
That’s why they haven’t done anything since. They didn’t have a plan for withdrawing the troops after the invasion because they don’t intend to withdraw. The ongoing carnage reinforces their claims that we can’t leave now. They wrapped it in the flag and sold it as spreading freedom and democracy and protecting us from Saddam and his WMDs, but the truth is, this invasion was about empire building and I think it’s criminal. The US invaded a sovereign nation for economic reasons. That isn’t democracy, it’s capitalism run amok.
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