By ReasonOne, aka Kyle

Why is it the Iraq War gets worse whenever George W.Bush and FOX news brag about how well the surge is working? Why does the Administration and our boot licking media insist on calling this blood bath an insurgency?

As you might have already heard this was another bad day in Iraq. Insurgents killed at least 40 people in Baquba, the capital city of Diyala Province, using car bombs to destroy restaurants, shops, and several cars. Of the dead 15 were so severely burned that their bodies could not be recognized. Meanwhile, in the Iraqi city of Ramadi a suicide bomber walked into Al Sahl Al Akhdar Restaurant, wearing a suicide belt and blew himself up. This particular restaurant is a popular haunt for police officers and with students from a near by university. According to local policemen, four policemen we killed and15 people were wounded. A total of four cities were struck with a death toll of at least 66 people.

I find it interesting that this takes place despite the escalation, the so-called Surge, which Bush, Petreus, Fox News, and the delusional Neocons maintain has been working. But as the left has pointed out on past occasions ,the Surge won’t work, it will only change the nature of the insurgency. And that has been proven true. We have said before that the escalation will only only succeed in moving the insurgency from one area to another, suppressing it in one locale only to see it erupt in another. Is this not what we are seeing today? Isn’t the insurgency disappearing from one area only to reappear in another?

Which brings me to another point. When did we go back to calling it the “insurgency.” Let’s be honest about it, shall we? It isn’t only an insurgency. It’s a civil war. When you have Sunnis killing Shi’ites and different sorts of Shi’tes killing one another over land, power, and ethnic / religious differences the term insurgency seems rather quaint. The term ethnosectarian conflict may be descriptive, but as PraetorOne has already pointed out it also qualifies as Cospeak of Doublespeak–a term so long and high falutin that you need a Philadelphia lawyer to decipher what it really means. Well, my friends, I’ll tell you what it means. It’s a politically correct term that the Bush Administration devised to substitute the more accurate and descriptive term: Civil War.

You just have to wonder: with violence on the rise why does the Bush Administration insist on telling us that the civil war is going well. The answer is obvious. Reread the first paragraphs. There were no American deaths. It appears as if we are dealing with an administration, a regime in Washington that is so racist that it doesn’t even consider brown-skinned Iraqis to be fully human. Time and time again this administration has measured the severity of the civil war in terms of American deaths while the deaths of innocent Iraqis count for virtually nothing.

Bottom graphic courtesy of The Worried Shrimp 

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