Letters to the Editor
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A pull-back based on "success" in Iraq? Why not call for draft to support Iraq "success"?
One could conclude G.W.Bush surely holds much conviction that he was/is right on/about Iraq. With such a strong conviction about Americans being in Iraq for a long time to come G.W.Bush could/should have called for a new national military draft to begin within 60 days.
Surely with his unending,never faltering confidence in the quality of his decision to invade/occupy Iraq this is where he should now be. Need more Americans for Iraq Occupation? A near broken American military troop supply? I will call for a new national military draft. Surely the American people will follow me on this and by next summer 2008 there will be another 300,000 to 400,000 available new and fully prepared for Iraq duty(Iran duty as well?) American troops.
He did not. And in not doing so underlined as fully as ever just how unfounded his invasion/occupation of Iraq was back there in early 2003 or has remained up to mid 2007.
Bush/Cheney will not risk any core politics/bases of support on this war/occupation in Iraq. This is the deeper Big Lie in this Bush/Cheney American Iraq Invasion/TakeOver. No war draft,no war tax loads imposed on all Americans.They will attack others wth phoney "support the troops" BS but will not actually take the real political risks and responsibilities in hand for the war they so very much wanted to start and now desire to force/prolong outwards beyond Jan.2009.
Bush/Cheney want to/can warmonger and socialize the costs of ME oil control(while western oil continues to rack up record oil profits) yet still resist/prevent any "unjust" revisions or remakes of how those record profits are taxed or linked to who(American citizens/taxpayers) is in ME today to the tune of several hundred billion $$$ and the lives of nearly 4,000 American soldiers.The costs socialized/profits privatized game rule fully at play here.
A Bush/Cheney war brought ME Hellworld the Iraqis are now in where death,suffering and the choice of becoming refugees has become as common for many Iraqis as how we Americans expect the mail to show up each day.
G.W.Bush evidently does not have the courage to back up what he wants(has wanted since 2002) in Iraq with any request for a new national military draft. What? Too politically risky? Since when did a big risk stop this American President?
Should WashDC continue on with this charade of six month "Whats my line?" ploys and gambits surely G.W.Bush will get to late Jan.2009 without ever having to preside over any admission of defeat or retreat. He will have his "success".
After last Nov.2006 and gaining majority status in Congress the DC DEMS seem ever so easily persuaded to give him and Dick Cheney all the cover they need for Iraq or the now often "more war" talk this Bush WH regime orbits around on/with Iran.
The DC DEMS seem to have/offer few profiles in courage as well.
Two worthwhile reads are now available at zmag.org Znet site.
One is written by Tom Englehardt and is complementary to GG's thoughts and viewpoints about endless,meaningless blather from WashDC. It is titled 'Imperial Autism'.
The other is written by Stephen Lendman and is titled 'Story Never Told'.
Both of these found under September 14,2007 at Znet site.
They are both long reads but worthy of the time taken doing so.