6:23 pm

CNN, "The Old World Mindset"

Lou Dobbs - General "Strange" Grange - We are in denial of who we are as Americans and need to stay 'in the fight' in Iraq.

OTHERWISE STATED :: We are allowed to kill and continue to kill just because we can.

Human Rights Violators.

Just that simple.

In Iraq, war is the name of the game so why not play it. It is not as though the war is going to be abandoned by it's prime player, the al Qaeda training ground of the USA military occupation. There is no chance Iraqis will have a life otherwise:

Iraqi insurgents keep up car bomb campaign (click on)

Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:24PM EDT

By Claudia Parsons

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four car bombs, two of them in Baghdad, killed 16 people in Iraq on Thursday as a U.S. commander said a security crackdown in the capital was reducing casualties from the weapon of choice of insurgents.

In the deadliest attack, a suicide car bomber targeting an Iraqi army and police checkpoint killed eight policemen and soldiers in the Karrada district of central Baghdad. The blast wounded 25 people, including two bodyguards of city mayor Sabir al-Issawi, who was unhurt, witnesses said.

South of the capital, six people died when a car bomb exploded as a bus carrying state employees passed by in a stronghold of Sunni Arab insurgents fighting the U.S.-backed Shi'ite-led government.

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OH, YEAH, the Bush Surge is such a huge sucess. It is nothing more than the General Petraeus' attempt to save the embarrassment of the USA, still again in a war that was illegally conceived for the purpose of corporate profit. The people dying now in Iraq are not considered to be anything except pawns in the politics or targets as insurgents, while, the reality is that four years of chaos, anarchy and war has created loyalty to finding their own solutions.

The Petraeus war might even be successful, but, only be the sheer numbers of dead people, he achieves while calling it a mission.

Open Letter to General Petraeus (click on)

James Petras March 9, 2007

I am told by the Manchester Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post that you have impeccable academic and battlefield credentials. Bush has appointed you “Commander of the Multinational Forces in Iraq”, and so you have the power to implement your highly publicized counter-insurgency theories. You are nearly my namesake – having a Romanized version of my Hellenized name (Petraeus/Petras). You are dubbed a ‘warrior’ or ‘counter-insurgency intellectual’. I hold credentials as an ‘insurgency intellectual’ or as Alex Cockburn calls it ‘a fifty-year membership in the class struggle’. You publicists have billed you as ‘America’s last best hope for salvation (of the empire) in Iraq.’ Predictably the Democrats in Congress led by Senator Clinton went down to their knees in praise and support of your professionalism and war record in Northern Iraq. So let it be recognized that you enjoy an advantage: the support of both parties, the White House, Congress and the mass media, but still being an insurgent intellectual, I am not convinced that you will or should succeed in saving Iraq for the empire. Better still; I think you undoubtedly will fail, because your military assumptions and strategies are based on fundamentally flawed political analyses, which have profound military consequences.