BAGHDAD/KARBALA--13 were from the helicopter-crash, the rest were combat casualties, or actual deaths. Expect things to worsen, and expect the President to continue to ignore the public-will. I'll be watching the hearings! It's fun to watch people who fear banality being forced to wallow in it. How many Iraqis died today? It must have been a couple-hundred. That's criminal, that' s insane. This makes Vietnam look meaningful. At least they had some actual framework, like the "domino theory." Yes, it was wrong--but what did the Bush administration have? "WMDs". "Mushroom clouds."
Then it was "to spread democracy", and-on-and-on. I'm not telling you anything you didn't already know by saying "it was about the money." Of course it was, but then why do some of us always fall for it? Pavlov's dogs never drooled so much, as some of the public did when war seemed likely. But, to the credit of many Americans, the Bush administration had a hard-time selling the war initially. It was the GOP-majority and the press who were instrumental in all this (and all-but-a-handful of Democrats opposed it). The New York Times held-back information on several stories that were damaging to the neocons in the White House. Fortunately, a few of them are going to be under-oath in the Libby trial.
AP:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070121/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
PS: Yes, I have had to update the number of dead in the byline two-times now.
Hey if you count accidents things are very different. It really is that 7 were killed today by violence, right?
ReplyDeleteSure, but they happened in Iraq, not during training at Ft. Benning. Besides, I don't believe everything coming out of there. How do we know what really happened? We know what we are told, it's all we have to go on, but I'm questioning these stories. There's a gold-tipped RPG that can shoot-through an m-1 Abrams (even with the ceramic HEAT armor)--completly through it. I only know this from one solid-source. Why hasn't the media covered it? Because it's bad PR. The situation there is far-worse than we know, I assert. Thanks for the comments, they're thought-provoking! You could easily be correct.
ReplyDeleteand they are sendin more?
ReplyDeleteYes,however, this has happened before. All it means is more dead American soliders, but worst is that many-more Iraqis will die. It won't save anything the Bush administration wants to achieve, he just cannot admit he fucked-up. That's fine, his fall will be much-much harder. I'm hoping all this destroys the office of the President. Hiya Boo, how you been?
ReplyDeletei've been good as usual thanks. i are sad having read your recent posts. its just messed-up :(
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