"We Keep Asking Ourselves Who’s Next" -- Robert Fisk

[Emillereid]

BAGHDAD, 28 July 2003 (The Independent) The convoys were humming down the highway from Amman to Baghdad all last week, trucks groaning under the weight of hundreds of tons of pre-stressed concrete, giant blocks and heaps of cement on the trailers, each one higher than the average lorry. I understood what they meant: protection from car bombs.



I had seen them so often in Beirut when the US Marines first came under fire in 1983. The “liberators” of Beirut were becoming the occupiers. Now the same is happening in Iraq. The “liberators” are turning into aggressive raiders, kicking down doors and screaming at disobedient Iraqis, shooting dead drivers who don’t stop at their checkpoints.



When they kill the former Iraqi leadership, the sons of Saddam, they parade their cadavers before Arab television audiences, just like any other Middle East regime.



Welcome to the “New Iraq”. The vast miles of concrete are to be placed around US bases in Iraq, protection from the car bombs which have yet to be used against them....


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4250.htm

As Buchanan said in another article, we've liberated Iraq from Hussein, etc., so why are we still there? This is getting so ugly.

[Pallas180]

1. Not "getting" ugly. It always was from the beginning, and we all

knew it, the same way we knew the election of 2000 was
rigged and phony.

[Emillereid]

2. I stand corrected ....

What's uglier than ugly? The tragedy is that the powers that be never learn from history -- did they really think they they could win the hearts and the minds of the people by invading and destroying their country and killing thousands of their citizens? Actually I think oil got in their eyes and blinded them to the fact that Iraqis are people who also love their country.