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WE CANNOT CONQUER IRAQ
Three dead American soldiers in Iraq
Do you want an analogy to what we are doing in Iraq and why we will not win ?
How about this letter from William Pitt to the House of
Lords on November 18th, 1777.
It's entitled An English Plea For Peace With The American
Colonies ;
" My Lords, this ruinous and ignominious situation, where
we cannot act with success, nor suffer with honour, calls
upon us to remonstrate in the strongest and loudest
language of truth, to rescue the ear of Majesty from the delusions which surround it. You cannot, I venture to say,
you CANNOT conquer America.
What is your present situation there? We do not know the
worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done
nothing and suffered much. You may swell every expense,
and strain every effort, still more extravagantly; accumulate
every assistance you can beg or borrow; traffic and barter
with every pitiful German Prince, that sells and sends his
subjects to the shambles of a foreign country: your efforts
are forever vain and impotent-doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates to an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies, to overrun them with the sordid sons of rapine and of plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty!
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a
foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay
down my arms!
Never! Never! Never! "
And the Iraqis will not lay down their arms for that very
same reason.
Iraq will be George Bush's waterloo and he will drag all of us down with him into this black hole of deceit, hubris, humiliation and heartache.
Allen L Roland
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