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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (9138)	8/24/2005 11:40:11 PM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

The Iraq War Is Unwinnable and Insane by Jeff Davis As of this writing, almost 1,900 American troops have died in Iraq, over half of whom were White. The cost of George W. Bush’s demented imperial adventure in Iraq is $300 billion and climbing. There was not so much as a fig leaf of Constitutional control of the President’s war-making powers. Our Constitution calls on Congress to decide if a war is necessary since the Founding Fathers wanted to discourage a power-mad emporer from waging a series of needless wars. Congress shamefully gave a mentally-challenged Commander in Chief sole discretion to declare war despite glaring conflicts of interest involving the oil business and Israeli-neocon influence. Our so-called democratic form of government can barely govern America, never mind the rest of the world. In view of the dog’s dinner that our corrupt and bloated Federal tyranny has made of our own country, what right on earth do we have to proclaim that it is superior to all others, never mind impose it on other countries at the point of a gun? It is none of our business how other people choose to run their countries or whether they choose to be friends or enemies of a certain bandit state in the Middle East. By now everybody and his dog knows we were lied into this war. The Bush administration knew full well that Iraq had neither the capability nor the desire to create weapons of mass destruction. The only point left for historians to settle is whether George W. Bush is a fool or a criminal. I personally think he’s both. What have we gained from the Iraq war? 1,900 dead soldiers, 14,000 wounded (in some cases horribly maimed with injuries of a kind not seen since World War One) and $3.00 per gallon gas. Not to mention a war without end that will most likely go on for generations and cause our grandchildren to curse us for being so spineless that we dared not stand up to Bush and his little Jewish neocon buddies. Cindy Sheehan is right. It is time for us to leave Iraq NOW. Every day we stay in that godforsaken hellhole only makes it worse for everyone, including the Iraqis. George W. Bush is Commander in Chief. All he has to do is pick up the phone on his desk, call the Pentagon and say “Tell the guys over there to start packing their gear.” He hasn’t got the intelligence or the moral courage to do that. He is going to hell, and he’s going to drag the whole world with him.