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The Last Hurrah of the Republican Warlords
December 15, 2006
The Republican Warlord Brotherhood is not satisfied with the
current number of American deaths in Iraq. Several of their
members said today they favor sending even more American
soldiers to Baghdad and Anbar province.
This bloodthirsty group of warmongers includes Senators John
McCain of Arizona; Joe Lieberman of Connecticut; Susan
Collins of Maine; Lindsay Graham of South Carolina; John
Thune of South Dakota; and Representative Mark Kirk of
Illinois. They are all Republicans except Lieberman, who
seems a bit fuzzy about his political affiliation.
Notwithstanding the mandate of a majority of Americans; the
Iraq Study Group; an ever-worsening civil war in Iraq and
the stark fact that things have gone from bad to worse ever
since the American presence in Iraq began; this special
delegation of politicians still believes our soldiers can
establish law and order there.
Our military leadership has failed miserably in the “law and
order” role, not because there aren’t enough soldiers on the
ground but because there is no plan and no significant or
sustainable support or direct help from the Iraqi people.
What would more troops accomplish? You don’t know, do you.
Forget the rhetoric about training the Iraqi police and
military to take over for U.S. troops. The Iraqi police and
military are deserting; betraying and being blown to bits in
record numbers. There are fewer of them to train every day.
This “train the Iraqis” delusion is an even bigger deception
than the “weapons of mass destruction” lie used by Bush to
start this war in the first place.
My take is that an increased number of American soldiers on
the ground equates to more targets of opportunity for
insurgent and terrorist snipers. For every additional
soldier we deploy to Iraq, Iran will provide more support
for the Shi’ite insurgents and Saudi Arabia will provide
more support for the Sunni insurgents.
Our number one warmonger Bush, has already declared his
refusal to negotiate with Iran on this issue unless they
stop trying to develop nuclear weapons. Dead end. The
Republican solution: send more Americans to die. Problem:
there are more Shi’ite insurgents willing to die than we
have American soldiers to sacrifice.
How many American deaths will be enough? Is Bush and his
2008 wannabe McCain shooting for 5,000? Perhaps 10,000? Do
they want more soldiers in Iraq before Christmas, so more
American families can look forward to a choice life
insurance settlement in time for the new year? Most
Americans are finding it difficult to understand why
Republican support for an incompetent, self-serving and
corrupt government in Iraq is more important than even one
American life?
Abject inability to answer that question will destroy the
Republican party in the 2008 elections. America is tired of
lies, tired of deception and tired of fighting someone
else’s war. Let the Iraqis settle this one on their own. If
Iran, Syria and Saudia Arabia want to get in on the carnage:
go for it.
Senator McCain, I hope you win the nomination of the
Republican party for president in 2008. You (and the party)
will discover that nothing, not even sympathy for your POW
experience in Viet Nam will wash away our memory of
thousands of American soldiers who, with the Republican
administration at the helm, died in Iraq for nothing.
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