White Noise Insanity

If there ever was a political cartoon that captured the crassness of the gutless chicken hawk neo-cons and what they wanted the American families to offer up their sons and daughters for this is it.

Bush at this point is simply feeding a meat grinder with the lives and bodies of the soldiers of this country.

He is subjecting the Iraqi people to the same horrible fate with no end in sight. Somebody has to step up and stop him. Just as Bush has failed in Iraq, Baker it seems has failed in Washington.

The failure of Bush has doomed thousands of families to a terrible loss which will never be abated. They no longer have their loved ones, and it is apparent to anyone who looks at how disconnected from reality Bush and the neo-cons have become, that the geniuses who got the country into this Fiasco have any clue how to get us out of it.

In fact, instead of ending this illegal immoral war, they are trying to raise the number of US soldiers in Iraq. This upping the ante of a losing war will result in a battle for control of Baghdad, which means fighting against the Madhi Militia of Al Sadr. One report out of CSIS sets their strength at around 200,000 fighters, and hundreds of thousands more supporters. Attacking a guerrilla force of this size will enrage the Shiite majority in Iraq just as the attack on Fallugha enraged the Sunni and was one of the pivotal points in the insurgency. If Fred Kagan and the neo-cons get Bush to follow their flawed strategy, the deaths of US forces would rise dramatically and the response of the US forces to the attacks would plunge the Iraqis deeper into a cycle of killings by all sides.

No amount of force has ever made a people accept foreign oppression for long. In the end almost all indigenous people have forced the occupiers out. Just as the British found out in both Iraq and Afghanistan post WW1, the French in Algeria and Indochina, the Soviets in Afghanistan and the US in Vietnam, all superior militaries which were forced to accept defeat by the indigenous peoples. The battle for Iraq is following a similar path for the US military. Raising the levels of US forces by 30,000 is simply avoiding the inevitable, the redeployment of the US military out of Iraq. We can NOT force the Iraqis to accept our version of their country any more than the British could force the revolutionary Americans to accept the British idea of how America should be governed.

The war for American control of Iraq is lost. Sending more troops is simply feeding the meat grinder to keep Bush from having to admit he was wrong. It is time to STOP FEEDING THE MEAT GRINDER.