... a decade from now, but right now.When it comes to Iraq, the President and his Administration continue to act like cowboys in a western movie. When will we learn? Until we do, there will be no solution in Iraq.
The President stampeded the American people into a flawed, futile and fatal war, and this Administration keeps applying B-movie mentality to real life suffering.
We have taken sides in a war torn nation, inadvertently backing the Kurds and Shiites - to the detriment of the Sunnis.
This is not some clan fight on a movie set that will get solved with a new sheriff riding into town, proclaiming peace and progress, but that’s the Administration’s current strategy.
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There’s a difference in a President leading the nation through a time of crisis and this President misleading the nation into precipitating a crisis. We have a crisis.
We need a leader. We need a plan to return U.S. soldiers to U.S. soil, not a decade from now, but right now.From
Democracy or Occupation? on November 18, 2005
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-jim-mcdermott/democracy-or-occupation_b_10855.html Agreed.
As many of us have known since Bush and his neoconster buddies started this illegal war of aggression, they didn't begin to consider the consequences of being an occupier. Everyone in the world knows we can "shock and awe," but then comes the hard part of imperialism. They were warned by many that "on the cheap" imperialism would ensure massive cost of life and resources while accelerating the inevitable civil war that has now been raging in Iraq since the early summer of 2003.
We need to be out of Iraq completely, with as efficient and secure a logistical withdrawal as we can possibly engineer, no later than May of 2006.
At the same time, some responsible representative of our government must go before the UN General Assembly and:
1. Apologize;
2. State unequivocally that those who broke the law will be held accountable in an American Tribunal on the Iraq War;
3. Request logistical support and cooperation for the removal of ALL Americans from Iraq;
4. Request international support for a stabilization group to work with the various Iraqi factions to fashion a geo-political framework that enables the various groups who live in that part of the world to stop killing one another and begin rebuilding their infrastructure and their society.
We, yes you and me, and the next two or three generations of Americans are going to be paying for a big piece of that reconstruction. We broke it, while breaking all kinds of laws. We don't own it, but we have a long-term responsibility for the criminal behavior of our government and their no-bid corporate "contractors."
Peace.