Evelyn Pringle: Iraq Money Trail to Bush Cronies Must End

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http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/938

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by Evelyn Pringle


It's time for Americans to face the cold hard truth that nothing will be accomplished by allowing the daily carnage in Iraq to continue, and if Bush has his way, our young people will be dying in this war profiteering scheme until hell freezes over. Congress needs to authorize funding to pull our troops out of that deathtrap and not one dime more.

Bush has become a madman who will listen to no one. After his speech on January 10, 2007, about the plan to send more troops, retired Army Col Doug McGreggor, a former advisor to Donald Rumsfeld in 2003, said in a broadcast interview, "There seems to be a complete failure to understand that we have been trying to suppress a rebellion against our occupation."

"As long as we are there," he warned, "we are the number one public enemy for the Muslim-Arab world."

"We were after all," he points out, "a Christian army occupying a Muslim Arab country, something which in the Middle East is essentially a disaster."

This decorated combat veteran says Bush's strategy will never work. "We did not go to Iraq originally," he explains, "to dismantle the state, dismantle the army, the police, and the government, to occupy the place with the object of changing the people that lived there into something they did not want to become." snip

The only people who are benefiting from Bush's war on terror are members of the Military Industrial Complex...