speaking a truth

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/mailbag/263


Subject: Thanksgiving Meditation in Troubled Times

“… because if they are seen to support us, they will have their head cut off tomorrow.” -- U.S. Army Major in Fallujah, Anbar Province, Iraq

Iraq has now become a paradox, wrapped in a conundrum, bathed in tragic irony. The U.S. has gone from being viewed as liberator to despised foreign occupier by the great majority of Iraq’s population, except perhaps in the north where the Kurds have accomplished de-facto autonomy. Military “victory” is now universally accepted as an unattainable goal. The country has devolved into a medium-grade civil war with almost 4000 Iraqis having died in the past month alone. Attacks on American forces are in the thousands per month. Snipers rule the rooftops and each morning brings a fresh harvest of tortured and murdered corpses, including now women. Our unsubstantiated invasion has created an unmitigated disaster for Iraq’s people, and millions have fled for their very lives to neighboring countries. Our national treasures of money, military troops and international good will have been squandered in this appropriately named “fiasco.” We have unwittingly adopted our own Palestine, riven with internal division, full of burning hatred and unfulfilled vengeance killing --fractured to its core. Like in LBJ’s “Vitnam,” we have pegged our hopes on a weak and faltering central government viewed by many of its people as a mere puppet of U.S. interests.

The road to salvation for Iraq and us begins with an unequivocal pledge by the United States to leave no permanent military bases on their sovereign territory. Otherwise, we both lose.

John R. Bomar

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permanent military bases there! That'll never fly with the Arab world. Ever.

The neocons want to be able to commit mass murder on Muslim communities at any given moment.

Bad for business.