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Something just doesn’t add up here. The Bush administration is also building a dozen military bases in that country and a new embassy larger than the Vatican. These look like the acts of an empire.

Just as ominous is the fact that some critics of the war, particularly Democrats in Congress, say the reason we ought to exit Iraq is that the government and people aren’t worthy of U.S. intervention. We should get out, but that’s the wrong reason.

This is a bad sign because it is apparently the beginning of the effort to let the Bush administration off the hook. His defenders will insist that things would have gone swimmingly if only the Iraqi politicians had been more responsible. “What are we supposed to do when you have to deal with people like that?” the war party is already asking.

This defense must be nipped in the bud. The disaster that is Iraq is the fault of Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who stampeded the American people into war with tales of weapons of mass destruction, and the conservative intellectuals who pressed their case for an unprovoked imperial war so the United States could remake the Middle East. They unleashed the violence that takes place there now, having sent the military in without regard for the reaction a Western invasion and occupation would ignite. They are responsible for the deaths. As Randolph Bourne, a critic of U.S. entry into World War I, said, “Willing war means willing all the evils that are organically bound up with it.”

"... The Democrats came into power this year promising to do something and what have they done? Not a blessed thing, because they are afraid that anything they do will be used against them in next year’s elections. That is cowardice, pure and simple."

The same should happen with the Iraq war. The Democrats came into power this year promising to do something and what have they done? Not a blessed thing, because they are afraid that anything they do will be used against them in next year’s elections. That is cowardice, pure and simple.

America’s presence in Iraq will continue to keep that country in turmoil. Bush wants us to think he is fighting al-Qaeda, but there was no al-Qaeda in Iraq before the United States got there, and al-Qaeda-in-Iraq is not Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda. Once again, Bush is lying to the American people.

The United States must leave Iraq at once. That should be the first step in a full withdrawal from the Middle East, a region American presidents have treated as their own at least since the end of World War II. No one believes the United States is an honest broker there. Pious calls for peace from an U.S. president are a joke, when Americans weapons have wrought so much death and destruction there.

The people of the region will need to figure things out for themselves. Real peace and freedom cannot be imposed by bayonets and bombs, especially when wielded by a foreign occupier.

Let’s leave the people of the Middle East alone and get our own house in order. No more foreign intervention. No more making enemies. We have much to do. Let’s start — with recriminations for those in Washington who got us into this mess.

1. 18-07-2007 08:52

UN Resolution 1723(2006)

We hear so much speculation from American politicians and from Americans in general as to how long they will stay in Iraq. What is never mentioned is that US Forces are authorised to be in Iraq as a part of "Multi-National Forces" authorised by UN Res. 1723 which has to be renewed annually at the request of the "Iraqi Government" (puppet Government).
At this current time the Multi-National forces are authorised to stay in Iraq only until the end of 2007 and at any time the Puppet Government can terminate the agreement "The Council also declared that it would terminate the mandate earlier if requested by the Government of Iraq."
The question is of course, would the USA once again ignore International Law, as was the case with the illegal invasion, and remain in Iraq after the Puppet Government has requested them to leave.
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/sc8879.doc.htm

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2. 23-07-2007 19:52

UN Resolution 1723(2006)

Would they leave or even find another catch 22 and morp their way into further occupation. They seem to be able to continue to invent their own vocabulary and definitions. Something I think the opposition needs to consider doing themselfs, not those in political office however. I think there could be some salvation in it possibly even an accidental universal mobilization from it. Other wise to resist on such a massive scale with even a hint of cohesiveness would not seem as though it could maintain a flight path, let alone leave the ground. Hopefully the Iraqi parliament will continue to vote contrary to Maliki. As impatient as people seem to be that the democrates will not stand up and use some of the harder solutions at their disposal. Seems it only incriminates them as to be panderering to give the military more time to gain some ground in Iraq. They realy show more evidence of having so much attachment for the country as to just make it another US territory, until such time they may wish to become part of our great union.

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