.Critique of US Policy in Iraq
"Bush Administration policies in Iraq have largely been a failure. It has created a failed state in that country, which is in flames and seething with new religious and ethnic nationalist passions of a sort never before seen on this scale in modern Iraqi history. The severe instability in Iraq threatens the peace and security of the entire region, and could easily ignite a regional guerrilla war that might well affect petroleum exports from the Oil Gulf and hence the health of the world economy.
The relatively small number of US fighting troops that the US has in Iraq, some 60,000 to 70,000, cannot possibly hope to provide security to a country of 26 million under such conditions of ethnic and political civil war. The much smaller British presence in Basra appears not to have been effective in halting that city's spiral down into insecurity, with tribal and militia grudge fights and assassinations having become common."
Juan Cole
posted by madtom at 5:05 PM
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Death of a hero made in the USA!
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death is an important development in the history of post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, and it proves the old adage, "Those who live by the sword must die by the sword" - or does it?
Well, who supplied the sword in the first place?
You need look no further than Bush and his crony, Intestine Powell.
Way back in the days before the invasion of Iraq, Bush and his child Bliar were scraping the barrel for a really good excuse to invade a country full of oil…… (err, sorry), a country with international terrorist links. The Jordanian Boot Boy Musab al-Zarqawi fitted their scheme (an Arab Muslim and above all a nobody with a liking for violence).
The US demonised him, created a hero in the eyes of some, and a sound investment for others such al-Qaeda, who before his rise in popularity viewed him in much the same way as something they’d just scraped off the sole of their shoe.
He was the product of a political decision to wage a propaganda war to justify the invasion of another country, and was thrust into the position of being able to do as he did by those with no real reason (other than the projection of US power) to ivate a sovereign state.
In light of this, one must ask who was responsible for his foul acts, by way of encouragement and support? Maybe Bush, Bliar and Intestine Powell can give us an answer?
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