IRAQ OUT OF CONTROL
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IRAQ OUT OF CONTROL
| Tue, 09-14-2004 - 12:33pm |
The mission in Iraq is far, far from accomplished. A surge in deadly violence this weekend brought the bloodiest day in Iraq in recent months; suicide bombings, mortar fire and fierce battles between insurgents and U.S. and Iraqi security forces, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15899-2004Sep12.html including a firefight between an Iraqi crowd and a U.S. helicopter crew, killed dozens, leaving even more injured. Attacks against U.S. forces now average 87 per day, the worst monthly average, reports Newsweek, "since Bush's flight-suited visit to the USS Abraham Lincoln in May 2003." Casualty figures keep escalating: the U.S. death toll passed 1,000 last week and over 7,000 have been wounded. Secretary of State Colin Powell admitted this weekend, "We did miscalculate the difficulty" of winning the peace in Iraq.
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/lookup.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=100480
As a sidebar, if US forces do go into Falujah and other Iraqi cities to quell the insurgency, most likely this will take place in December or thereabouts, assuming Bush wins the election. Which for the past 4 to 6 months American servicemen and women who have been killed in Iraq have given their lives for the reelection of George Bush.

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Let us not forget the "leftists". After all, their questioning of the widsom of the war is "giving aid and comfort to the enemy". After all.....isn't that the REAL reason why things aren't working out over there?
I mean who needs a plan and an understanding of the history and politics of the area when you have blind loyalty and optimism?
Optimism beats out a good plan and good information any day. (Can you tell I'm being sarcastic?)
How come we jump to responsibility for mistakes--this administration doesn't think it's made any mistakes.
I don't think so. IMO you are very close to the truth, you just missed the words "empire"
and "perpetual war" which keeps the military-industrial complex fed.
On the surface that seems so unwise....but I suppose when you and your friends and family all have strong connections to those industries (and a sure way to dodge actually fighting in those perpetual wars), it makes perfect sense.
I’m not much for conspiracy theories, but there are certainly many reasons to see the oil connection.
When Pres. Bush listed his axis of evil foreign states, it was pretty obvious that the easiest one to go after was Iraq. With Chalabi telling them how it would be a cakewalk and their desire to go after Saddam – for whatever reason - so intense, they just had to scare up enough support for an invasion and they did.
Many of us, who are anti-war, pointed out all of the unintended consequences that could result from a War on Iraq (being right about so many of them doesn’t bring any satisfaction) and the possibility of war with Iran was one of those warned of.
So, in that region it may be inevitable that THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION has put the US into the middle of what will become a long-term war-zone for that region. Is this what Pres. Bush means by bringing the war on terror to them instead of having it play out here in the US? If so, where is the morality in having innocent Iraqi men, women and children – collateral damage – die?
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Edited 9/17/2004 7:46 pm ET ET by car_al
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Edited 9/17/2004 8:15 pm ET ET by car_al
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