Reply #33: The Probable Results of Zarqawi's Death--Best Face

[Vogon_Glory]

The most "hopeful" outcome of Zarqawi's death would be a limited reduction of the sectarian violence now plaguing Iraq. Perhaps the new government would be able to begin to impose a measure of law and order. This would definitely be a good thing for the male half of Iraq's population.

Nevertheless, the new government will continue to be dominated by a Shi'ite majority with ties to the anti-American, theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran. This new Iraq will not shift into being an American ally as neo-conservative theoreticians and right-wing propagandists have predicted, but into being at least a good friend of hostile, unfriendly Iran.

Incidentally, the rights women had under the secular-minded Iraq that existed before 2003 are likely to vanish as new laws based on Shar'ia are enacted and imposed.

This is only the BEST result we Americans can expect, thanks to Buckaroo Bush's bungling and the "Conservative"/Banana Republican's successful efforts to freeze out dissenting voices who rightly were more skeptical of the proposed invasion and that invasion's probable outcome. The worst we can expect is a chaotic, faction-plagued, war-wracked no-man's-land like Somalia, a playground for terrorists and a growing whirlpool of chaos likely to spread West and South into Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Syria.

Heads up, right-wing lurkers. This is NO victory for the US or US corporate interests. This is a disaster. It's a much bigger disaster for the US than Mao's revolution in 1949, Castro's takeover of Cuba in 1960, and the fall of the puppet regimes in Indo-China in 1975.

And the making and the implementation of this disaster has right-wing fingerprints all over it. It's a right-wing FUBAR--YOU made it, YOU own it!