We are not making progress in "pacifying" Iraq. Our occupation and imperialistic behavior, disrespect, and alienation continue to enrage the Iraqis with, bullying, and the constant shooting of civilians. The military operations continue to create a steady stream of dead and maimed GIs back home that has become a political liability for the Bush administration and the GOP.

This daily dose of trauma was combined with collapsing stories. There was no al-Qaeda connection. There was no Iraqi nuclear program. There are no weapons of mass destruction. Alas--just as many of us said well before the American people were manipulated through fear to support this war--Iraq is not now, nor has it ever been, a threat to the United States.

Even as the old lies incrementally slowly dissolve, the Bush administration is developing new ones, the most significant of which is the lie that the armed resistance to the US occupation is composed primarily of "remnants" or foreigners. To fight the Americans would be decidedly "un-liberated." In fact, it is Iraqi resistance with widening popular support. Crowds cheer after successful attacks against Americans. Eighty percent of the Iraqi’s want the U.S. out of their country and over sixty percent believe it is okay to kill Americans.

Should the US troops pull back behind the wire (GREEN ZONE), to have their static positions placed under 24-7 surveillance, the Iraqi street and countryside is relinquished to the guerrillas, who can now bomb oil pipelines, water mains, Brown & Root profiteers, embassies and hotels. In military terms, the US has lost the strategic initiative in the war on Iraq. Not even the surge of 45,000 troops will stop this eventual reality. I say 45K troops, b/c although Bush is plan is for 21.5K ground troops; one needs to realize an additional 4 support troops will need to accompany the initial 21.5k troops.

Bush’s Delima:

First, there will be no good outcome of this war. There will only be choices now between bad and worse. A crime has been committed and it can't be taken back. In the face of a similar dilemma Vietnam, there was the incredulous question, "How do we just get out of Vietnam?" The answer--one that was ignored at terrible cost: "With ships and airplanes."

Second, the Bush administration will not quit. They have proven their infinite capacity for self-delusion and impunity. That leaves the American public with a no win choice. Accept this junta's continued vandalism against the world and against our own economy (We are now paying $5 billion a month for the two military failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, while Bush cuts taxes for the rich). Or throw them out. Not elect them out. Throw them out.

America had to pull the whole nation through the constitutional crisis of Watergate to rid ourselves of the Nixon Republican regime; we will have to risk the political disruption of the same kind of crisis should Bush continue on his course of action to purge this neo-con disease from the American democracy of ideas.

Popular protest against the war in Iraq, a mobilization to bring our troops home and leave Iraq to the Iraqis, is the only thing that will stiffen the spines of the elected officials of both parties, who were stampeded into this war by demagogy and their own indestructible opportunism, to call for the independent investigations we must have of the whole highway of lies that led us into this quagmire.

On top of all this, we haven’t even started the discussing the fallout and global castastrope that would be created should Bush decide to manipulate or lie to the American public to TACTICALLY NUKE Iran. America and the world is in for a long ride and uncertain future over the next 18 months of the out of control Bush Administration.

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Why don't you suggest something that might work to help in Iraq besides Bush is wrong and cut and run?

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Rasta, you're posts would have more credibility if not every single one served as a platform for your "I Hate George Bush" agenda.
Where are you getting your info? Do you have proof that American soldiers are indiscriminately killing Iraqi civilians?
You have proof that the Iraqi citizens hate the US? All citizens?
If the US troops retreating to the Green Zone would cause the carnage you describe, wouldn't the troops leaving totally cause even more widespread carnage?
Whats with this simplistic argument about "Bush lied" still being used?
If you want to debate the quality of the intel that said there were WMD, you are probably right.
If you want to debate why Hillary relied on old Clinton staffers to make her decision for the Iraq vote, then thats legitimate too.
If you want an investigation to truly determine how the US had such lousy intel, that would be legitimate.
But the investigation you seek is only to find some offense by the President. And that is sad and transparent.

Justme, thanks for saying what I get tired of saying.

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"Second, the Bush administration will not quit."

>>>It's ONLY choice is to play this hand out to the end. And then go home.

"But the investigation you seek is only to find some offense by the President. And that is sad and transparent."

>>>And what if there WAS some offense? Like campaign contributions from AIPAC in exchange for an invasion of Iraq. I doubt that any Bush offense would less grievous than being on the receiving end of a blowjob in the Oval Office, eh?

Prove an offense and I'll be the first say he should be punished.
And for the 7,456,789th time, nobody cares about the BJ, its the LYING.
But thats only important if its scooter talking about plame, right?

"Prove an offense and I'll be the first say he should be punished."
>>>How do you prove an offense without an investigation?

"And for the 7,456,789th time, nobody cares about the BJ, its the LYING."
>>>I wasn't much in favor of the lying, but he shouldn't have been asked. And, really, there are many, many folks who care about the actual BJ.

"But thats only important if its scooter talking about plame, right?"
>>>Nobody cares about Scooter talking about Plame unless it shows that Cheney's 'case for war' was a fabrication. Everybody wants to see Cheney being perp-walked into a courtroom.

I'm still convinced that the US is in Iraq only to use it as a base of operations.

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>>>Then it should get the GIs out of the cities and set up shop in the middle of a desert somewhere.