Putting Things Back Into Perspective for the Spin-Meisters...

We are told by the president that if we leave Iraq now
We will be contributing to a massacre.

But if that’s the case, perhaps a little analysis may shed light
On what might happen if we begin to pull back now rather than later.

If we pull back now, will we still not have a massacre on our hands whenever we decide to leave?

Will we still not be engaged in somebody else’s Civil War?

The only thing that might change later rather than now is the degree of that Civil War.

And the numbers of US dead and wounded.

And the only thing that may change the degree of that Civil War, is our success now. So, it becomes very fair that we ask the question: What is happening now that will change the circumstances later?

According to a variety of sources, not much.

In fact, it looks as if in the capitol of Baghdad, things have gone from bad to worse.

If the surge ultimately proves successful, it will only reaffirm what we knew at the outset but refused to acknowledge and that is the more troops we have to fight “terrorism,” the better our chances to reduce terrorism and prevail.

First, I realize that I used the word terrorism. Let me make this painfully clear, when we first attacked Iraq, there was no terrorism; if there is any terrorism afterwards, we helped create it.

What there was was an entire army of Sunni that we disbanded painting every one with the same brush. You have Mr. Brimmer to thak for that one.

Our philosophy was if you don’t see it, it doesn’t exist.

By not doing all the things we set out to do, including returning Iraqi oil money to the Iraqis and not even getting the electricity or water to work, we aided and abetted the growing feeling that we were only there for the oil and the profits.

Nobody did anything about the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who were out of work, who had their houses bombed, and their families separated at best.

Now, most of the Iraqis who could afford to have simply gotten out. They have given up on Iraq and its American planners.

For others, Iraq has simply become a training camp for those who can’t stomach American liars who worship false gods who say it’s okay to murder innocent children. It is a camp for those addicted to Jihad. And they have a point.

One wonders where we had our heads on those halcyon days when we thought it we would be viewed as saviors.

What mindless arrogance we are subject to.

And now what was predicted has happened….and it won’t matter one iota whether we leave now or ten years from now.

As soon as we leave, the ancient hatreds will percolate and Shia’ will kill Sunni but in the process I suspect they will carry no truck with the killers from Al Qaeda who have no business there in the first place.

It is logical. When Saddam went, the Sunnis and Shia’ would be at each other’s throats. There never was any doubt about that.

Les Aaron