Why Did Bush Destroy Iraq? By Paul Craig Roberts

[kpete]

Why Did Bush Destroy Iraq?
Submitted by davidswanson on Sun, 2006-03-12 14:17. Media
Every Reason Put Forward Has Been Proven False
By Paul Craig Roberts, CounterPunch.org

Half of the city's former population are displaced persons living in tents.

Thousands of Iraqis have been detained in prisons and hundreds have been brutally tortured. America's reputation in the Muslim world is ruined. The Bush regime expected a short "cakewalk" war to be followed by the imposition of a puppet government and permanent US military bases. Instead, US military forces are confronted with an insurgency that has denied control over Iraq to the US military. Chaos rules, and civil war may be coming on top of the insurgency.

On March 9, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the man who has been totally wrong about Iraq, told Congress that if the unprecedented violence in Iraq breaks out in civil war, the US will rely primarily on Iraq's security forces to put down civil war.

What Iraqi security forces? Iraq does not have a security force.

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[Hissyspit]

1. Rumsfeld: "The Man Who Has Been Totally Wrong About Iraq"

That will be his epitaph. Course there's other stuff that should be carved on his tombstone, too, none of it good.

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

2. Iraq's Security Forces? Rumsfeld's failed to notice

that Iraq's "Security Forces" are precisely the people who are pushing the civil war most intensely, i.e. the sectarian Shiite militias (all loyal to Iran, no less) who have organized themselves in death squads against Sunni Arabs, Kurds and Shiites that they don't like, probably their most common victims no less! Iraq has no functional security apparatus to speak of.

[teryang]

3. Government of confusion or lies?

<One day Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld tell us that we are having great success in training an Iraqi military and will be able to begin withdrawing our troops in a year. The next day they tell us that we will be fighting the war for decades.>

[Ufomammut]

4. LIBERATION! LIBERATION! LIBERATION!

Paul Craig Roberts kicks serious ass ...which, given his history, should convey the truly horrifying "Orwellian" type nature of the quasi-parallel universe we're now experiencing.

[leesa]

5. Kiddin' me? They've successfully looted billions of dollars from the

US treasury. Bush and his buddies have made billions! NOTHING in Iraq has been fixed...where's the cash?

[lilly_j]

6. oh c'mon be fair

They had one group able to operate on their own, but then it was downgraded to zero.

At this rate looks like we'll be there....forever