Iraq is George Bush's waterloo and he is dragging all of us with him into this black hole of deceit, hubris, humiliation and heartache ~ It's time for an intervention on November 7th and a needed reminder to King George that the ultimate deciders are the American people: Allen L Roland
We are not wanted in Iraq, and we are now hunted, bombed and hated by a growing legion of freedom fighters . Over 70% of Americans now feel Bush's war and occupation of Iraq is a FAILURE.
And, indeed, they are correct !
Bush continues to refer to Iraq as the central front in the war on terror when in reality it is an illegally occupied country wherein the vast majority of the Insurgency are rightfully fighting for their freedom from U.S oppression.
Our illegal occupation of Iraq is a total failure with over 2800 Americans killed, over 25,000 wounded, over 40,000 hospitalized , approximately 665,000 innocent Iraqi's killed and wounded ~ and an American public becoming more sceptical of it's increasing human and financial costs ( Approx One trillion dollars ) .
Make no mistake about it ~ this midterm election is a referendum on George W Bush !
E.J. Dionne Jr writes yesterday in the Washington Post of the growing surge of the ' Radical Center ' with an intense desire for change; " The Democrats current lead in the polls can be thus explained by two factors: the energy of a passionate phalanx of voters desperate to use this election to rebuke Bush; and the disenchantment of moderates fed up with the failures of Bush's governing style and ideology ~ notably in Iraq."
The recent National Public Radio survey makes clear that anti-Bush energy is this elections prime driving force.
Only 22% of those surveyed strongly approved Bush's performance in office while 44% strongly disapproved ~ a huge 20% approval deflicit and the Republicans have nothing to counter it with.
But here's the key finding ~ The moderates favored the Democrats 59% to 34% in competitive districts so the moderates are the driving force of this election and they are apparently rightfully also fed up with the Cheney/Bush administration.
Bush cannot answer the question why our soldiers are
dying in increasing numbers because the reason has
nothing to do with hating Democracy ~ and everything to
do with hating our illegal occupation.
We are dealing with massive denial here and Bush has now replaced the fictitious menace of Iraq 's WMD's with the equally fictitious menace of Iraq being the central front of the War on Terror.
So let's get something straight about Iraq .
This past election in Iraq was not about Democracy in action ~ that election was all about reproducing the US appointed Iraq Interim Government inorder to prolong the occupation and further incite sectarian and ethnic conflicts, which are obviously accelerating dramatically .
As long as there is continued strife, there is justification for U.S. troops and the dozen military bases that are currently under construction in Iraq.
We are in Iraq to stay ~ so stop wishful thinking. Only
impeachment or a change in Congressional leadership can stop the Cheney /Rumsfeld led neocons now.
It's really very Orwellian ~ remember Eternal War for
Never Accomplished Peace.
That's why we had those sham elections earlier last year ~
the reproduced Interim Government would claim
legitimacy and cement into place Exec Order # 13303
( giving full oil rights to major U.S. Oil companies ) as well as legitimizing Paul Bremer's blanket privitization decrees ~ which he enacted before he left Iraq .
It was and still is a big sting folks and Bush wants to
avert our attention with his War on terror histronics or perhaps, if desperate, a war with Iran ~ so we won't note the incredible costs of his humiliating failure in Iraq.
That's what our soldiers are dying for.
The Iraqi's know full well the impossibility of holding free
and fair elections . Their pseudo government wrote a stage managed constitution while the Iraqi people continue to suffer under a brutal and illegal U.S. occupation ~ where their intrastructure is still in shambles and unemployment is well over 50%.
Iraqis have seen virtually no evidence of improvement in their homes, streets and neighborhoods and they rightfully blame U.S and Iraqi government corruption.
This growing army of Resistance fighters are freedom fighters to their fellow Iraqis and their numbers are increasing every day ~ from within, not without.
WE CANNOT CONQUER IRAQ !
You want an analogy to what we are doing in Iraq ?
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 Iraqi's will never lay down their arms for that very
same reason.
Iraq is George Bush's waterloo and he is dragging all of us with him into this black hole of deceit, hubris, humiliation and heartache ~ It's time for an intervention on November 7th and a needed reminder to King George that the ultimate deciders are the American people.
It's time for a change.
Allen L Roland
Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on Conscious talk radio www.conscioustalk.net
