I think I can classify this under the part about Common Sense or the lack thereof...
I keep seeing these commercial with from Vets for freedom talking about how well the surge has worked and then people saying " so stay there till the job's done."
ow they've even put us on notice that they don't want us there!
Bullshit...! Let snot stay there one more moment than necessary. They don't want us there, which was recently revealed. We went there under false pretenses, to which Mr. Cheney and Mr, Bush have not been held accountable' perhaps an indictment by the world tribunal for "war crimes" would do just that...
People that want us to stay there are only interested in two things
1) That America not lose a war and lose face- heh...I've got news, the loss of face is well documented, the lost of the war is still a mystery. (Oh...Oh... we still don't have the oil)...yet, but latest news says the big oil companies are still trying to nab it!
2)The appearance that leaving Iraq means that the men and women who have died during this invasion and problematic occupation would have given their life in vain..
Well I know this sounds callous, but yeah...I think that's right, and guess who was the architect of their deaths?
Staying in Iraq to honor the memory of fallen comrades, while invoking jingoistic emotion, is flawed reasoning. It's plain and simple. Sometimes soldiers do die in vain when they have corrupt and unresponsive leaders. We have the full house here in America.
When we leave Iraq, they'll fall back to killing each other as usual, such is the curse of fundamentalist ideology, just around the bend, down the road, detoured but not deterred.
2) Did you hear about the 12 year old girl who was given a car for three months of perfect school attendance. Ever wonder why kids are so needy for immediate gratification? What kind of a statement does that make to a generation that thrives on praise and requires accolades for the smallest achievement.
3) What about the guy who fetched the apple core that Tiger Woods was eating and preserved it, not touching it, by putting it in a baggy. last I heard, it was being auctioned on e-bay for thousands. Can we say....can we truly say...."dah? " We are true blue fools of a larger nature." Only in America!
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In regard to the Iraq War being about oil, you now have people coming out and frankly admitting that the war was, in large part, about oil.
Alan Greenspan is one of them in his memoir and Fadhil Chalabi is another of the most recent in a radio debate (which I discuss in one of my blog entries).
There can be no doubt that it was a big motivation behind the invasion. Now if we could only figure out what was said in Cheney's secret energy task force meetings...
Thanks for visitng and commenting Chris. I haven't read Greenspan's book yet, but I did hear mention of those remarks on a recent interview with him.
Cheney is a matter unto himself. In many ways I belive that he is the worser of two evils, bush being the surrogate.
I regard him no more than a war=monger. his entire attitude and approach to any problem is to go to war and show force( reference the current response to the war in Georgia.)
He is dangerous. It is my hope that he will be expsoed for what he truly is, through history, and on a more immediate front be held accountable in some degree for the mess, of which he and Bush have been complicit.
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