The idiots who believe this “war” is actually over, are the very same idiots who believed that we invaded Iraq to bring democracy to the Iraqi people.

America LOVES to wage wars. Unfortunately, with only one quasi-exception, we never WIN them. In fact, anyone being honest about our history must admit that one of the most valuable welfare systems we run is the military.

So let’s cut the baloney and admit to ourselves that we are nothing more than a failed state with a big giant army. Wow, it sure is worth fighting and dying for!

That country may soon turn into the same trap,
Soviets once got in Afghanistan
(http://www.win.ru/en/school/3226.phtml).

Easy to get in, hard to get out. I know, that refers
to the question whether we had to get in there in the
first place, but for now, military command is to
decide whether there’d be sense in further supporting
Iraqi people with more than just investments and
arms. Just as the author of the article mentioned,
the war is yet not win, yet not lost and yet not
over.

Both D’s and R’s voted for this war. I have just written several elected officials as follows. This is, as it were, dedicated to David Sirota. If it rings any bells with you,  please substitute names and send out copies at will.
__________­__________­______

To——:

I’m a progressive. After Obama (and many of your betrayals as well), I will never vote Democrat again.

I’m hoping that the remaining Democratic elected officials who are also progressives will publicly resign from that party after the debacle in November, subsequently creating a third party of their own.

At issue is the potential transfer of nuclear access codes to Sarah Palin or someone very much like her in 2012. Think nuclear access codes. Nuclear access codes. We cannot afford to lose.

By then, the economy will be in tatters, and Obama’s “audacity of taupe” policies won’t save us. Think Weimar. The Democrats, who will be thoroughly discredited by then, cannot prevent that transfer of power.

You yourself are a corporately-owned Democrat and so is Senator Patty Murray in Washington State, where I live.

I cannot vote against you, but in hopes doing my part in creating a tactical crisis that may help bring forth a truly viable progressive/independent third party, I will consider holding my nose and voting against Senator Murray next November. At the very least, I won’t vote for her.

It’s way past time closing time for the Dems. It’s time to trot out the garlic and the wooden stake.  “It’s over,” as Leonard Cohen sang, “and it ain’t going any further.”

Of course the war continues. It’s the only thing the US is the least bit good at!

Our country was born in war, forged in the furnace of
manifest destiny, and teethed on genocide and unending
imperial expansion for the benefit of the power
brokers.

Like all empires we eventually reach a point beyond sustainability and the system collapses. My hunch is
this collapse will become painfully obvious and
undeniable to even the most recalcitrant observers
very, very soon.

What can you expect of a war based on B.S.?

Good viewing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVGgcu_NE0w&feature=player_embedded

MeHere,
That is the news of the century. May be for creating a mini USA???
God bless

The largest and most expensive US embassy built in Baghdad is a 104-acre, 27
building compound. It has 619 apartments for staffers as well as restaurants,
indoor and outdoor basketball courts, volleyball court, and indoor Olympic-size
swimming pool. Was that built with the idea of leaving it all behind for Iraqis to
use as an educational or medical facility?

Obama is part of the problem, trying to fake being part of the solution. He is in true gutless puppet form with the ‘withdrawal’ - trying to not anger the right (heaven forbid) and appease the left ( who are fast realizing he isn’t one of them despite the tea party whining about his socialism) But then how can Obama resist the traditional tide of American imperialism, which characteristically continues to occupy almost every country it has attacked?

Now the 50,000 restive troops will ensure “Americanisation” of “Iraqinisation” of the Iraq. Rex non potest peccare.

God bless
Dr. O. P. Sudrania

And to remind us again of just how deeply we each are personally involved (until we change our entire war-dependent economic system):  The war-dependent economic system does more than a little to preserve
our own relatively high standard of living (compared to most places in the world).  We are still having our cake and eating it, too.  And in case anyone really wants to know, that’s why “they” hate us.

Cmon! Really! Can anyone truly identify any significant stretch of time when this peace loving democracy of ours has NOT been at war to one degree or another?

I remember when all the bases were being created in Iraq after the Invasion. We were told these were merely temporary bases. After about a year, it was noticed that these “temporary” bases had a very permanent look to them. Now, the remaining 50,000 troops will, among other things, be guarding “our” bases. A few terms get swapped around, a few fancy speeches get made—and the policy remains the same: American global military dominance. Let’s face it. Obama is not some progressive savior of the American Dream. He’s not even a Liberal for Christ’s sake. We need to leave Iraq. There was no reason for us to be there in the first place. Our continued presence, no matter how Obama tries to relabel it, is to assign noble reasons to a lie.

Conflict between US and, pashtuns, japanese, and iraqis cannot ever end unless US withdraws every last ‘private’-regular militant from these lands and pays for damages inflicted on these peoples.

But, US, above all else, wants more land for tiny impoverished israel and large, but-getting-poorer, US.
Sirota just cannot afford to say this truth! tnx