The soldiers were thrown into a war where either one survived or died. There was no real exit strategy from the beginning, only a map of a march from Kuwait into Iraq's oil fields. It wasn't a military invasion with purpose, so much as a military invasion for the plutocracy.
Many, many in the USA knew exactly what was being done and that is why Bush and Cheney were always on the defense about it. The people in the USA that were outrageously upset over the Iraq invasion, the demonstrators, the soldiers against the war, the anti-war movement knew long before the first tank rolled across the Kuwait border this was an illegal war. If it weren't for them and their prowess about their own country and international aggression of their military by the plutocrats there would have been a world war.
Easily.
It was those and the United Nations that opposed the invasion with inspectors 'on the ground' in Iraq finding absolutely nothing to justify such actions that prevented escalation beyond the Iraq borders. The invasion is why the global community now is justified in their skepticism of any peaceful intentions of the military. With the Wikileaks documents there is a growing justification for worrisome methods of the wrongful use of the Executive Branch of the USA.
Al Pessin
The Pentagon 25 October 2010
The U.S. Army general (click title to entry - thank you) who commanded coalition forces in Iraq for 2 1/2 years denied allegations on Monday based on the WikiLeaks documents published last week that his forces undercounted Iraqi civilian casualties and condoned the abuse of prisoners by Iraqi forces.
General George Casey, who is now Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, says troops under his command in Iraq did not intentionally underreport the number of civilians who were killed during his tenure, from mid-2004 until early 2007. "I don't recall downplaying civilian casualties. In fact, we actively went out and tried to count civilian casualties, to the extent we actually sent leaders, soldiers, down to the morgues in Baghdad to count civilian casualties," he said….
General George Casey, who is now Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, says troops under his command in Iraq did not intentionally underreport the number of civilians who were killed during his tenure, from mid-2004 until early 2007. "I don't recall downplaying civilian casualties. In fact, we actively went out and tried to count civilian casualties, to the extent we actually sent leaders, soldiers, down to the morgues in Baghdad to count civilian casualties," he said….
