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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JakeStraw who wrote (9199)	4/9/2004 11:11:07 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

It's the one year anniversary of the fall of Saddam. Are the people of Iraq free? as Bush had promised? No. Do our troops want to be there? No. In fact all home leave has been cancelled due to the fact so many troops are Bushing their way out of service once home - they're going AWOL. Figures that you can't discern any of this and that you support an illegitimate, illiterate president in his illegal occupation of Iraq.

To: JakeStraw who wrote (9199)	4/9/2004 11:17:03 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

"We have to destroy (Iraq) to save it". These folks took the brunt of the last stupid Bush war, then they suffered under Saddam, worse suffering has come under American occupation. No need to worry about Bremer though. He has special security forces guarding him: "Mike Ruppert was spot-on, in yesterday's account (From the Wilderness) of the actual nature of the Blackwater Corporation's activities in Iraq. This article from the NY Times sheds much more light on it - the fact that Bremer's personal security guard is ALL Blackwater employees, not the military, that they have their own fleet of military (presumably armed and armored) helicopters, and that they are fighting alongside Marines and other US military. Guns for hire - dealing death for profit. What are the rules of engagement for a Blackwater employee? What happens if a Blackwater employee kills Iraqi civilians and the relatives pursue a $100M wrongful-death lawsuit? Mind-boggling. Clearly there's been a sea change in the role of non-military private armed forces contracted to the US military, and it's slipped under our noses with no one noticing. Now, at least, the Fallujah incident has brought it to the attention of the US Congress. Also worth noting is rising apprehension among US military about the real loyalties of the Iraqi police and the attempted new security and military forces being re-created in Iraq. The US realizes they don't know who they can trust. Where do real loyalties lie? More and more, despite efforts to avoid that characterization, it feels like an urban Vietnam. "We had to destroy it to save it". That's a quote, folks. Note also (see other NY Times articles) that there seems to be one thing that's finally brought Sunni and Shiite together: cooperating in armed resistance to US occupation. Nothing else the occupiers have tried has been so successful at bridging their ethnic and religious differences. "Unintended consequences". groups.yahoo.com/group/energyresources/message/55140