An Inability to Change

Presidential Politics: If you do something wrong often enough with enough commitment, people will think it's right.
True or False?

Since the beginning of the War in Iraq, the death rate for American troops has been reported to hover around two a day.
Of course, the way the Pentagon figures, casualty figures are broken up by branch of the service and into at least two categories: accidental and combat related and perhaps more that we have not been told about.
However, October started with a serious uptick in the numbers...
In fact, calling it an uptick is an understatement. Casualty numbers have risen 350% or 3 and 1/2 times to 7 fatalities a day! On the ground now, eye witnesses are describing the chaos they see as much worse than has been portrayed and the use of the term insurgency is commonplace. When are we going to call this what it is a Civil War and an insurgency that combines hatred for Sunni and Shiites compounded by an overarching hatred for the US that seems to be growing exponentially!

We have failed here in the worst way possible and it seems that everything we do does not do anything but make things worse.

It should have been clear from the very beginning that we went into Iraq with some very false notions. Our intractablity and close-mindedness have blinded us to fundamental truths in the conduct of this war and carrying this on ad infinitum is a sign that rationality escapes our leaders and eludes the influentials who influence policy.

To be so damagingly wrong may be alright in a disagreement or a misunderstanding, but when you are cavalierly throwing your best and brightest into the fray you have an obligation to the public for your actions.

To date, no one has paid the price except the parents and families of those who gave their flesh and blood to an unworthy cause.

And the president and his cadres continue to pursue a path that has been shown to be not only unproductive but counter productive leading to growing hatreds against the American people.

With this understanding, we have sufficient cause and justification to change the status quo, to reverse this insane commitment that can have no good possible outcome.

To most people who have retained a modicum of rationality,
we are being led to the slaughter by crazy people who are incapable of changing their minds in the presence of proof positive that they are wrong. Dead wrong!

NOt only should they therefore be relieved of their posts, but they should be institutionalized for certainly their actions show quite vividly a kind of madness that obscures reality and the truth.

Les Aaron
the committee for positive change
www.lesaaron.blogspot.com