2007 Must Be Better
I suppose it was inevitable, the new year of 2007 begins and 3,000 American soldiers have been killed for nothing.
.....the deathsraised the American toll to at least 3,000.
Reaching that threshold has significance at a time when President Bush is considering a change in strategy that could include sending in more troops. The 140,000 U.S. troops currently in Iraq have not been able to reduce the daily violence caused by an aggressive insurgency in the western province of Anbar and an increasingly bitter sectarian conflict in Baghdad.
Of course, there are also more than 25,000 injured. These lives so horribly taken, and so horribly affected, have made the impression on the American public that has led them to reject this war - as they should.
I so hope they haven't died in vain, and that their deaths will have shown the American public finally and forever that we are a better country than the cretins in power can ever be, and that they will turn up and vote them out of office, and vote good, honest people in.
.....the deathsraised the American toll to at least 3,000.
Reaching that threshold has significance at a time when President Bush is considering a change in strategy that could include sending in more troops. The 140,000 U.S. troops currently in Iraq have not been able to reduce the daily violence caused by an aggressive insurgency in the western province of Anbar and an increasingly bitter sectarian conflict in Baghdad.
Of course, there are also more than 25,000 injured. These lives so horribly taken, and so horribly affected, have made the impression on the American public that has led them to reject this war - as they should.
I so hope they haven't died in vain, and that their deaths will have shown the American public finally and forever that we are a better country than the cretins in power can ever be, and that they will turn up and vote them out of office, and vote good, honest people in.
Labels: Iraq War
posted by Ruth at 3:58 AM
1 Comments:
You hope they haven't died in vain? If they had died in vain, that would be break-even, far far better than what has in fact occurred.
With each passing day it becomes clear that they died in the active pursuit of evil. That is Hussein was bad and George Bush is far worse.
Your only slightly paranoid thought for the day: The reason Hussein was hanged before most of his crimes went to trial is that those helicopters and the "agricultural chemicals" used to gas the Kurds, a clear Nuremberg hang-em-high war crime, were supplied by the United States -- by Donny Rumsfeld -- for the purpose of gassing Iranian troops. This latter, also done, and also a Nuremberg crime and violation of Geneva Conventions and US Treaties, was back when Hussein was Our Guy. Why? Because, out of pique with the Ayatollah, Cheney and Rumsfeld encouraged him to make war on Iran in our place.
No, I don't actually think the US stepped in to head off such trials as a conscious policy-based decision. As these things usually happen, the conscious policy based decisions just happened to have a bunch of convenient side effects.
Keeping Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Cheney from being unindicted conspirators in a major war crimes trial was just one of those convenient side-effects.
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