The list of failures of the Iraq debacle is long but it begins with the stated reasons for invasion. It was ALL lies.

The war was lost at the point Bush lied about the threat posed by Iraq.

Even if you agree with these neo-fascists known as the PNAC/Bush crowd and their war in Iraq, they lost it when they shunned the experts (General Shinseki) on what would be required to be "successful" in Iraq.

They lost it when the Saddam statute was toppled and failed to provide security to the people of Iraq and allowed the looting and sacking of Iraq. (a direct result of the PNAC/Bush crowd shunning the Shinseki recommendations)

They lost when they replaced Jay Garner with Paul Bremer and then proceded to commit one blunder after another

They lost when they launched this Fallujah nightmare. They may "win" Fallujah but they have lost in the eyes of the Arab world.

They lost when every stated "goal" for Iraq has been nothing but a red-herring to get public support for a war of choice un-related to 9/11

This administration is a criminal enterprise engaged in evil in Iraq.

A select few who failed to realize it are running our country.

All lies and the results are evident. This war is lost and we need to face it, and so should kerry if he is to win the election.

"Support for the war will increase when we get rid of the insurgents".
He may be right but I don't hold out much hope of that happening after hearing that now 71% of Iraqis want our troops to go home.

"When we stop shooting them, they won't be so mad." So when do we stop shooting them? When they stop shooting us. When do they stop shooting us? When we leave. When do we leave?

He's making the classic mistake of portraying the "insurgents" as a static group, fixed in number. It's the same kind of thinking that permeates the pronouncements of the likes of Richard Perle, when he speaks of "ridding the world of evil".

What they all fail to realize is that for every insurgent that they kill, their tactics serve to create two more. There is no end to this, until the US forces begin to take such losses that they can do little more than declare victory and go home, as Sen. Aiken advised we do at the height of the Vietnam War.

Well, I would guess that if there aren't any insurgents there wouldn't technically be a war, would there?

(By the way, tomorrow is the one year anniversary of him strutting around the aircraft carrier saying 'Mission Accomplished.')

Everything he touches turns to crap. Rich,crony uncle-daddy figures have always bailed him out.

Why is this any different? It's his lifelong pattern: Wake up, crap on the world, duck, cover, run away. Leave the steaming heap for someone else. Sleep like a baby while the world burns.

i have been saying this step by step by step


it failed cause the intent was of greed

never admit defeat, or error, no matter how many die

to paraphrase John Hay...
We never should've gone in there to begin with.
Bin Laden etc weren't there...and there sure as shit wasn't any WMD's to be found.
No, I think John Kerry has the right idea....we've got Saddam so internationalize the whole mess and lets blow this popsicle stand with as much of our dignity intact.
But there is no happy ending here.

I've got my own precis' to the whole thing at:
www.chimesatmidnight.blogspot.com

Drop by...if you hate Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, drop by and stay a while.
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... only a DO NOT ENTER strategy.

..irreparably the day they decided to bring in outside contractors at huge salaries to do the rebuilding, instead of hiring the very capable Iraqi contractors at a tenth the cost, put Iraqis back to work, and give them hope.

Helliburton, Bechtel, and a hundred other corporations using Iraq as a feeding trough are to blame for this. There is now no way to repair it, it's simply gone too far.

Prepare for the daily "kill count" to start escalating as the heavy handed destruction and repression in Falluja continues.

These people needed JOBS. They got Halliburton.

Saddam is now looking like a saint by most standards.
The "ceasefire/massacre" in Fallujah; the rape and torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq. Only "God/Bush" knows whats going on in Guantonamo Bay???

While 50% of Americans sponsor these activities, the other 50% are content to blame "this Administration". At some point we have to ask ourselves -- Is attributing blame really enough?

No one can terrorize a whole nation,

unless we are all his accomplices.

Edward R. Murrow
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