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IRAQ: Time for a Reality Check |
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by Walter F. Wouk
Email: tpp (nospam) wintersoldier.org (unverified!) |
21 Nov 2005
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And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for? |
Bush Administration flacks continue to defend the invasion and occupation of Iraq while the Democratic Party is desperately seeking it's spine.
Meanwhile, they both fail to acknowledge the obvious fact that the U.S. Military has occupied Iraq for nearly three years -- at the cost of $200 Billion, more than 2000 dead and nearly 20 thousand casualities -- and they still do not control the ten mile stretch of highway from Baghdad to the airport.
They don't control Baghdad and they don't control the countryside around the city. The insurgents do.
The Kurds have carved out their own little niche in Northern Iraq; and Southern Iraq and it's oil fields are under the de facto control of fundamentalist Muslim Mullahs and their militias. The Shari'a is the law of their land.
What will be accomplished if the U.S. "stays the course" in Iraq? If the U.S. Military eventually defeats the Sunni Insurgeny -- the Shiite majority will impose their rule on Iraq -- which begs the question, why are American soldiers fighting and dying to install a fundamentalist Muslim regime in Iraq? |
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