Iraq is George Bush's waterloo and he is dragging all of us with him into this black hole of moral deceit, hubris, humiliation and heartache : Allen L Roland
This is an update of one my most popular weblog posts of the last two years ~ well over 100,000 hits ~ under the title of We Cannot Conquer Iraq .
To sum it all up, This so-called illegal war and occupation of Iraq is morally wrong and hatched with deception and lies ~ We are not wanted in Iraq ( Over 80% of Iraqis want us out as soon as possible ) we are now hunted, bombed and hated by a growing legion of freedom fighters . In addition, over 70% of Americans feel Bush's war and occupation of Iraq is a FAILURE.
And, indeed, they are correct !
Our illegal occupation of Iraq is a total moral and military failure with over 2900 Americans killed, over 30,000 wounded, over 40,000 hospitalized , approximately 655,000 innocent Iraqi's killed and wounded ~ and an American public becoming more sceptical and rightfully angry over not only this occupations increasing human and financial toll ~ but the unwillingness of the President and Congress to respond to the people's wishes.
The New Republic reported last year that the Iraq Constitution calls for the application of Islamic edicts, not civil law, in matters relating to marriage, divorce and inheritance and adds " The idea that 2900 American troops died so Iraqi women can enjoy the full blessings of religious medievalism ought to disturb the Bush administration and the American public ."
Bush cannot emotionally deal with the FAILURE word and, indeed, asked Sec of State Powell to leave last year because he told Bush that " We are losing the war in Iraq ." Powell has again recently confirmed that this war is unwinnable.
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, folks and Bush has now replaced the fictitious menace of Iraq with the equally fictitious menace of a nuclear Iran ~ with AIPAC fanning the flames. A nuclear Israeli wanting to maintain its position of power in the region ~ with Krauthammer and other Zionist columnists beating the drums for war.
But let's get something straight about Iraq .
The American controlled 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 has accelerated dramatically.
As long as there is continued strife, there is justification for U.S. troops and the 14 military bases that are currently under construction in Iraq.
We appear to be in Iraq to stay ~ only impeachment or a change in Congressional leadership could stop the Cheney led neocons .
The change in leadership has occurred and a Democratic house, representing the true will of the American people, must now face the reality that the Cheney/Bush administration refuses to face ~ We cannot conquer Iraq, we morally and militarily have lost this illegal war and occupation, we must immediately stop building military bases, we must stop funding this neocon pipedream and we must begin to bring the troops home now.
The Baker/Hamilton intervention opened the door to the reality of the Iraq debacle ~ the House of Representatives must now cut the funding, accept the war's failure and demand that the troops come home.
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 Iran histronics ~ so we won't note the incredible costs of his humiliating failure in Iraq.
That's why our soldiers are dying .
The Iraqi's know full well the impossibility of holding free
and fair elections under the current conditions of American occupation . Their pseudo government is currently going through the motions while the people suffer under our brutal and illegal occupation ~ where their intrastructure is still in shambles and unemployment is well over 60%.
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 Iraqis will never lay down their arms for that very
same reason ~ regardless of how many more troops we send into Baghdad .
Iraq is George Bush's waterloo and he is dragging all of us with him into this black hole of moral deceit, hubris, humiliation and heartache. It's time to leave !
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
