Strangechord

Someone Tell the President the War is Over:

…In an interview with Tim Russert early last year, Mr. Bush said, “The thing about the Vietnam War that troubles me, as I look back, was it was a political war,” adding that the “essential” lesson he learned from Vietnam was to not have “politicians making military decisions.” But by then Mr. Bush had disastrously ignored that very lesson…

I am thrilled with the attention and support Cindy Sheehan is receiving as a result of her camp-out outside Bush’s ranch. A tipping point seems to have occurred in the past few weeks.

As I see it, there are two reasons the U.S. is in Iraq: 1) occupation and stability (ha!) of a region that holds a chunk of the world’s dwindling oil supplies, and 2) a playground for the implementation of a Western neoliberal economic agenda, arrogantly referred to as “reconstruction” and “democratization” (see my post from over a year ago). This Iraq occupation is a travesty - a racist, imperalist, greedy travesty.