The week Iraq's dream of peace fell apart

The week Iraq's dream of peace fell apart
By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad

18 September 2004

Where freedom was promised, chaos and carnage now reign. A suicide bomber in a car blows himself up in the heart of Baghdad killing 13 people. Air raids by US near the city of Fallujah kill scores more. And so ends one of the bleakest weeks in Iraq's grim recent history.

Between them, suicide bombers targeting Iraqi police and US air strikes aimed at rebels have killed some 300 Iraqis since last Saturday - many of them were civilians. The escalating violence throws into doubt the elections planned for January and the ability of the US and interim Iraqi government to control the country.

The repeated suicide-bomb attacks and kidnappings in the centre of Baghdad are eroding whatever remaining optimism there might be about the success of the government of Iyad Allawi, the Prime Minister, in restoring order in an increasingly fragmented country.

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<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=563099>

We all need to yell out to the media and our neighbors "What's "W's" plan to get us out of Iraq?"

Some nuts in charge. Horrible peace keepers.

Unfortunately he turned out to be a spy for Iran or was it Israel or was it...

...takeover as the prefect of Iraq and this deterioration of self-rule? Can anyone see a similarity to the rapid deterioration of order and law in Iraq and what happened in Nicaragua in 1987 when Negroponte was prefect there? This is all unfolding as planned people.

<links>
Friday, May 7th, 2004
Chomsky Blasts Negroponte Appointment to Iraq Embassy
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/07/1450219

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/occupation/2004/0709negroponte.htm

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/04/289707.html

This is no accident folks. The Bushovicks are dead serious and will stop at nothing.

His plan is to invade and occupy other countries, with no regard for what it does to us or to the countries on his list, and total lack of concern about how many U.S. and "coalition of the willing" troops die and are wounded, not to mention his complete disregard for the lives of innocent civilians.

And yet National Guard troops cheer him, the mainstream media can see no wrong in anything he does, and fundamentalists believe he is called of God to carry out some holy purpose. Thus the question, "What's the plan to get us out of Iraq?" is pointless and would fall on deaf ears. Those who support Bush simply do not care, and seem willing to watch the slaughter and insanity continue.

I do not give up, but there are moments like this when it is very hard to keep the faith. Nonetheless, I chant my mantra:

BUSH MUST GO!!!