We get the government we deserve
Oh my gosh! Is this what over 2,800 service men and women have died for?
U.S. obeys order to abandon checkpoints - Yahoo! News:
U.S. troops on Tuesday abandoned checkpoints around the Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City on orders from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the latest in a series of moves by the Iraqi leader to assert his authority with the U.S. administration.
Cheney keeps going on who the insurgents are trying to influence the election so that the US will withdraw.
United Press International - Security & Terrorism - Analysis: Insurgents target U.S. will:
On Oct. 17, Cheney told Limbaugh: “I was reading something today that a writer — I don’t remember who — was speculating on increased terrorist attacks in Iraq attempting to demoralize the American people as we get up to the election. And when I read that, it made sense to me. And I interpreted this as that the terrorists are actually involved and want to involve themselves in our electoral process, which must mean they want a change.”
I think he’s got it backwards. I think the current government is using the elections to get us out.
U.S. obeys order to abandon checkpoints - Yahoo! News:
American voter support for the war at a low point as the Nov. 7 congressional election approaches, and a top aide to al-Maliki said the Iraqi leader was using the Republicans’ vulnerability on the issue to leverage concessions from the White House — particularly the speedy withdrawal of American forces from Iraqi cities to U.S. bases in the country.
Ultimately, the Shiite rulers in Iraq don’t need us anymore. They have the military, the police, and the militias. We’re only standing in their way of taking over the whole country, at least the part the Kurds can’t defend.
Because we didn’t have any plan for post-invasion Iraq, because anyone who mentioned what has turned out to be the true cost of the war in terms of personnel and costs was silenced or fired, because the administration saw nation building as something for wimps, we have ended up in a no-win situation in Iraq. Who are we fighting for? The ordinary Iraqi? Given that their own government isn’t interested in our help, what are we supposed to do? If we aren’t even willing to maintain check points because the of the government, how much good can we do by sending in more troops?
This is worst than Vietnam. At least in Vietnam, the south Vietnamese wanted us to stay in country.
Filed under: Dick Cheney, Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Quagmire, Sadr City, Shiite, militias, nation building
