Quote Originally Posted by medicinal
So in other words, you have no solution, Just hang out and let more Americans get killed while the Iraqis fiddlefuck around ....
i guess i just wasn't obvious enough for you. how about replacing "strengthening of iraqi forces" with "force the iraqis to take control of their own defense through a series of time lines and decreases in american forces". did you expect there to be a solution without further bloodshed? fat freakin' chance, we're gonna be stuck in that damn sand box for years to come. in case you have forgotten them, i will reiterate two basic truths of the grand bureaucratic farce. first, governments start wars (this is one of the few things they are good at and you should always play to your strengths). second, children die in wars (i have nothing even close to witty to say about this depressing fact).

this tendency that so many have to harp on the half-truth that this is a war for oil is just about as useless as balls on a priest and about as honest as the entire "bringing democracy to the middle-east" myth. this was always a war about protecting american interests. financial, political, philosophical, societal etc. etc. etc. for decades it has all been about the westernization of the globe and the expansion of the "american way of life". so it really doesn't matter that there are a number of "solutions" when none of them serve the underlying agenda.

i find myself reminded of the reason i dropped out so long ago and why i insist on playing these silly games of devil's advocate here. there is nothing more asinine than politics and politics seems to make the world go 'round. well, have fun and good luck.



i seem to be feeling particularly apathetic today or maybe i just need to get laid. perhaps i should just over-medicate and hope things look better when i come to, if i come to.
delusionsofNORMALity Reviewed by delusionsofNORMALity on . Bush's success in Iraq. Is this success in Iraq that Bush talks about? ERMELI, Iraq (AFP) - The darkness of grief gripped the Iraqi village of Ermeli on Sunday as black mourning banners, armbands, bloodstains and soot bore grim testament to a truck bomb attack that left 140 dead. The rural community was the latest victim of a week of intense violence and political intrigue in an Iraq mired in bloody civil conflict, and one day after the attack the population was divided between shock and bitter anger. Rating: 5