IT JUST ISN’T FAIR

It just isn’t fair.
After watching the hearings with Army General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker this week, I can well imagine the glee that must be coursing through the veins of every recruiter in the United States. After listening to Petraeus and Crocker one gets the idea that Iraq isn’t a war zone. Rather, one gets the idea that Iraq is the Middle Eastern equivalent of a posh vacation resort, replete with guided tours and tourist buses filled with curious spectators with digital cameras. Well, my dear friends, I have news for you. Despite glowing reports from the general and the ambassador, Iraq is still a war zone, and I would advise young men and women who are old enough to serve in this God awful war to remember that the Administration and its acquiescent finger puppets have a very long reputation for twisting and dismissing the facts and a very short record for truth and accuracy, .
Once again the Republicans, the war-mongering Neocons have revealed a proclivity for either ignoring or changing the facts to suit their delusional world view. Yesterday, as General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker were painting a pretty picture of the situation in Iraq the situation was in fact devolving into chaos. Shiite Cleric Muqtada Al Sadr threatened to break the cease fire, essentially threatening to unleash his Mahdi Army against US and Iraqi forces. The Republicans would have us believe that this is meaningless, but during the course of his testimony, Petraeus admitted that an armed conflict with Al Sadr’s militia is a nightmare scenario that the United States would prefer to avoid. By the saSme token, we saw militia attacks on the Green Zone, attacks which required intervention from Iran to end that particular form of aggression. (So of course Crocker and Petraeus ruled out direct negotiations with Iran.) Moreover, as Petraeus and Crocker claimed that the number of American soldiers killed had been on the decline, we learned that 13 American soldiers have been killed since Sunday. Translated into modern English, Petraeus and Crocker are deliberately overestimating the success of the surge while underestimating the violence and danger.

Why does this bother me? First and foremost I hate the idea of waste and the Iraq War is just one big waste with a name attached to it. This war has wasted our reputation abroad; t has wasted finances and resources; it has wasted the lives of American troops. it has wasted the lives of American Contractors; and it has wasted the lives of thousands upon thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians.

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The General Davy show co-starring Ambassador Crocker

If you missed the lapdog and pony show yesterday, PoliticsTV has videos up. I am writing a piece for PeaceTrain about the whole sordid hearing that will go up tomorrow over there. It was a trip my dear reader..believe me when I say BushCo should be very proud of their homies..

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