The Bush-Blair reconstruction cum occupation of Iraq has entered history as the most corrupt ever.
The body count is either 100,000, if you follow Lancet, or some number closer to the entire population of Portland Maine if you don't follow Lancet, and thats just the non-combatants killed by the Occupation Forces.
The election was a charade, predicated on the Rape of Nanking being replayed in Falluja, because unfree Sunnis could not vote, and wierder than the Ohio Deibold vote tallies, a triumph of process because free Sunnis would not vote, and the victors are ... packs of weasels.
Syria has already "blinked", and Iran won't ever.
So other than complete Bush-buy-in or cluster fuck maintenance in the hope of something somehow improving somewhere because of someone, what purpose does six figures of US troops serve in Iraq, other than Iran war pre-possitioning? Oh, for the next two to ten years.
Stripped of the pussyfooting, MoveOn.Org decided that Iraq isn't an issue anymore because Riverbend's "Just Go ..." ran a wicked close second in the Best Post category, but didn't garner a majority of the votes cast. Did anyone who voted for any of the other nominees, including Juan Cole's “If America were Iraq, What would it be Like”, which won, think they were voting to take "out now" or "ceasefire" or "No Attack Iran" off the table?
So MoveOn.Org is a resistance organization of the determined and organized progressive left, except in Iraq. Mssrs. Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Frith, ... must be pleased.
The GNN coverage is here.
Posted by EBW at March 18, 2005 09:38 PM | TrackBack