...resulted in a baseless invasion into Iraq of which was stated recently by David Grange, "...we did Iraq 'on the cheap'..." His statement was made following the annoucement by the World Court stipulating Blackwater would be investigated for human rights abuses in the unwarranted killing of innocent iraqis. Blackwater to date states it has all it's shootings recorded 'in the record.' Did anyone count their bullets and their guns? No. Then what are they offering as defense to the statement they can account for all their shootings?
WMD were never found by David Kay. They were never discovered by the UN Inspectors prior to the invasion. They were never there. Ever. No ability to reconstitute any nuclear capacity. Nothing. The munition bunkers of Saddam Hussein which could have easily caused another war, at the time of invasion were still locked and sealed by flimsy UN wire seals. It was the USA military that recklessly removed the seals for the press to view.
We never belonged in Iraq.
We don't still.
Still yet another 'Bush Imposed' policy that is supposed to be welcome by the Shi'ite authority in Baghdad. There is no way. There is no trust between Sunnis and Shi'ites and why? Because the streets of Baghdad belong to the Shi'ites. They have removed Sunnis from neighborhoods in a methodical fashion only to face the return of Sunnis? You gotten be joking here. The Shi'ites are more in fear of retribution for the removal of Sunnis from Baghdad neighborhoods today then when Saddam was in power. There ain't no way, peace between the ethnicities will culminate in a family picture in front of the USA Embassy. No way. The Partitioning of Iraq into provinces will ensure 'boundary lines of hate and mistrust.' It will end the violence between the ethnicities long enough from them to have two generations pass before they will cooperate as a country again. Two generations will have to pass (40 years) before the ethnic divide of Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds will begin to heal. Two. Two generations of peaceful divide, before a truce will ever manifest in that country.
Iraq Hampers U.S. Bid to Widen Sunni Police Role (click here)
...But now that the Americans are trying to institutionalize the arrangement by training the Sunnis to become police officers, the effort has been hampered by halfhearted support and occasionally outright resistance from a Shiite-dominated national government that is still inclined to see the Sunnis as a once and future threat....
Sorry, if there is overuse of The New York Times archives but it's quick and easy and their archives are extensive.
Funding for the Iraq War.
What funding?
The troops have to be redeployed out of Iraq to facilitate a reduction in fire power. The rebuilding of the holy lands of Islam will ensue when neighboring countries can help supply materials to the craftsmen left in Iraq. The religion of the people must be returned to them as soon as possible. It is my demand that if the USA is to assist Iraq from now forward, it will by proxy through the support of other nations. The USA has done such extensive damage to that country and pending determination regarding genocide of multi-faceted dimensions that any relationship between Iraq and the USA should be banned while support is provided through trust funds placed in Saudi Arabia, Kurdistan and through the UN while humanitarian aid is distributed through Iran.
On War Funding, Democrats Have a Day of Disagreement (click here)
Three prominent Congressional Democrats on Tuesday sought to step up criticism of the White House over the rising cost of the Iraq war. The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee said that he would block President Bush's request for nearly $200 billion in supplemental financing for war operations, and that the government should levy a war surtax to cover costs....
I have yet to understand how we allowed George Walker Bush the right to state, “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa .”; while looking the other way at a memo that literally indicts the Bush/Cheney White House of treason to commit high crimes and misdemeanors while abusing the military powers of the USA to run wars for profit in closed contracts to cronies. People have died in large number in Iraq. They have been refugeed. They suffer more today at the hand of the USA's inability to rebuild and return fuction to medical facilities while the people of Iraq wallow in poverty. And we are all supposed to look the other way when Republican candidates and presidential hopefuls state the USA will continue it's presence in Iraq? You've got to be joking !
The Downing Street Memo, July 2002:
There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.
