I hate to even bring up the Iraq mess anymore but we have to keep talking and writing if we want something positive to occur.
I hope the Iraq Study Group report would give our president a way out of the quagmire. It does make 79 suggestions but he spits on them all – why? – Because the report does not have a plan for a victory in Iraq – a victory?
The “victory” cry was echoed by all the right-wing pundits in unison. I was disappointed to hear Senator McCain joined the group. My hearty endorsement of him for president in 2008 has been put on hold – for the time being.
I can understand the call for a victory; we all can. Bush absolutely needs a victory otherwise over 3,000 American soldiers died for nothing. On the other hand many more died in Vietnam and we still pulled out without a victory. Actually we suffered a defeat in Vietnam; plain and simple. The difference is that the pullout and defeat did not happen to the president that started the mess. Here Bush is absolutely the one responsible for everything that has happened in Iraq; hell, he invaded Iraq – remember? It would be HIS defeat!
I have maintained that the plan to invade Iraq and by doing so, create a democracy in the Middle East that would then spread democracy to other countries in the region was a silly, ignorant delusion. If that is what Bush defines as victory; it will never happen and it had no chance of happening from the start.
Reports from U.S. soldiers on the ground in Iraq (not general that serve at the pleasure of the president and say what he wants to hear) have confirmed that the Iraqi soldiers they are training do not, and will not, have any loyalty to Iraq. Their loyalty is to their religious group; Sunni or Shia. This one fact is what prevents us from ever having a victory in Iraq and what made a victory impossible from the start.
The idiots that are demanding a stable, democratic Iraqi government are in a state of denial. They have a bunch of lessons from past and recent history and they still refuse to learn.
Recently, news came of the Saudi government offering support to the Sunni insurgents in Iraq. Syria also is supporting the Sunnis and Iran obviously the Shia. Iraq is already divided and yet we continue to believe we can create a unified, peaceful Iraq.
Interviews with ordinary Iraqis confirm the fact that the country is already divided. The police are Shia and kill Sunnis at their checkpoints, so is the army. The Sunnis have only their militias to protect them and remember the Sunnis are in the minority. The government is basically Shia and will protect and enrich their own. So you see the division I called for in my past blogs is a reality; we just don’t know it.
I hope the Iraq Study Group report would give our president a way out of the quagmire. It does make 79 suggestions but he spits on them all – why? – Because the report does not have a plan for a victory in Iraq – a victory?
The “victory” cry was echoed by all the right-wing pundits in unison. I was disappointed to hear Senator McCain joined the group. My hearty endorsement of him for president in 2008 has been put on hold – for the time being.
I can understand the call for a victory; we all can. Bush absolutely needs a victory otherwise over 3,000 American soldiers died for nothing. On the other hand many more died in Vietnam and we still pulled out without a victory. Actually we suffered a defeat in Vietnam; plain and simple. The difference is that the pullout and defeat did not happen to the president that started the mess. Here Bush is absolutely the one responsible for everything that has happened in Iraq; hell, he invaded Iraq – remember? It would be HIS defeat!
I have maintained that the plan to invade Iraq and by doing so, create a democracy in the Middle East that would then spread democracy to other countries in the region was a silly, ignorant delusion. If that is what Bush defines as victory; it will never happen and it had no chance of happening from the start.
Reports from U.S. soldiers on the ground in Iraq (not general that serve at the pleasure of the president and say what he wants to hear) have confirmed that the Iraqi soldiers they are training do not, and will not, have any loyalty to Iraq. Their loyalty is to their religious group; Sunni or Shia. This one fact is what prevents us from ever having a victory in Iraq and what made a victory impossible from the start.
The idiots that are demanding a stable, democratic Iraqi government are in a state of denial. They have a bunch of lessons from past and recent history and they still refuse to learn.
Recently, news came of the Saudi government offering support to the Sunni insurgents in Iraq. Syria also is supporting the Sunnis and Iran obviously the Shia. Iraq is already divided and yet we continue to believe we can create a unified, peaceful Iraq.
Interviews with ordinary Iraqis confirm the fact that the country is already divided. The police are Shia and kill Sunnis at their checkpoints, so is the army. The Sunnis have only their militias to protect them and remember the Sunnis are in the minority. The government is basically Shia and will protect and enrich their own. So you see the division I called for in my past blogs is a reality; we just don’t know it.
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