Stoopid Stuff

Good Job, Bush!

Oh yeah. You did a great job. You took a nation that was in no way a threat to America or the west, that was not aligned with Islamic Extremists and that was completely controlled and contained by UN Resolutions, Sanctions, No Fly zones and a completely crippled military, and at the cost of only a few tens of thousands of human lives and half a trillion dollars you single handedly turned it into an anti american islamic theocracy closely aligned with Iran. My. I guess you HAVE made a difference in the world.

The thing that makes me sick, and should make all Americans nauseous, is that we are STILL spending lives and treasure to prop up this hostile government we created. The thing that makes me laugh, sadly, is how completely Bush got out maneuvered by Sistani. Sistani brought the right pressure at the right time to cause the American occupation to give up it's original plan to install a docile puppet government and call early elections. Oh sure, our administration had plans to cheat (not a surprise with this bunch, who ALWAYS will place politics above policy), but even these masters of arrogance and hubris had to back away from that plan in fear of being exposed. So, it could not have come as a surpise that Allawi could not overcome the built in 60%+ Shiite majority and overnight Sistani and al Sadr were in charge. These are ALL people who lived in exile in Iran for DECADES while Saddam Hussein (remember him?) was running Iraq. Now, ask yourself. In the face of the Sunni Insurgency and the Kurdish Military and Economic power, what's keeping these guys in power. Oh, wait! WE ARE!!! American money and lives, propping up a government that will be a thorn in our side for decades to come.

WAKE UP, America. Especially you "Red Staters". Yep, it's your strapping, healthy young midwest homo hating christian boys who are being killed and maimed so that al Jafaari and his cabal can hold on to power. So that militias in Basra can beat students to death for listening to music, murder shop owners for selling alcohol and beat, rape and kill women who violate the Sharia's "Family Law Provisions". By the way, doesn't that remind you of "Focus on the Family"? I'm telling you, these religious zealots are getting awful hard to tell apart.

Push will come to shove at the end of the year when the real government is elected. They will then "ask" the american military to leave. What will we do? If we leave, the whole thing will have been in vain. We didn't protect ourselves from terrorists. We didn't create a democracy. We didn't even get the oil. Will we leave quietly, with our tail between our legs, like a good, or at least a reformed global citizen? Or will we refuse, turning a low-level insurgency into a full blown guerrilla war with both Iraq and Iran?

Look, at this point we've lost. Whatever it was we ever stood to gain, that's all down the toilet and we've lost. The only way to preserve even a modicum of dignity and integrity is to GET OUT NOW! Sure, bad things will happen. The Turks will roll up the Kurds, Iran will effectively annex Iraq's southern provinces, and the Sunnis will be left with sand and camel dung. At which point the Shiite militias will be the ones digging and filling the mass graves. Sad, ugly and 100% our fault. But any alternative will result in more horrific outcomes.

posted by mikey @ 12:27 PM