Iraqi Civil War

[PumaClaws]

[PumaClaws]

[Bama]

[PumaClaws]

[PumaClaws]

[Bama]

Puma Claws---> "So who cares if you personally had anything to do with taking Indian land? Besides, you can always stand there and demand that the government pays for the land it took or bought or you could just give it back to us. The real atrocity, of course, was not the grabbing of our land but your all's genocide against my people."



If you think President Bush's reason - Security - for invading Iraq was original, you would be wrong. The reason President Andrew Jackson and Congress gave for the Indian Removal Act - Security!

Trail of Tears? I'm not responsible. If I had been around at the time my advice would be not to sign those treaties agreeing to give up your land for a "good deal" in Oklahoma.

You can't go home again.

And who invented whiskey? Some white guy? I guess you want to blame me for that too.

[indago]

It was reported, on CNN, that the Iraqi civilians are paying the price for the war in Iraq. It was noted that "According to the Iraqi Health Ministry, some 3500 Iraqis died last month alone in the violence."

Bush is going to win this war if it kills every Iraqi in Iraq...

[indago]

I am recalling a scene from Lawrence of Arabia where Lawrence was being taken through the desert by an Arab guide. They stopped at a well to rest and refresh themselves and fill their waterbags, and the guide was eyeing Lawrence's revolver. Lawrence noticed this, and gave it to him. The Arab was excited about it, and put it in his bag.

Off in the distance came a horseman. They watched in anticipation as he came nearer. The guide became anxious, and finally reached for his pistol, and the horseman raised his rifle and shot him dead.

The horseman came nearer and questioned Lawrence, realizing that he was English. Lawrence told him that he had shot his friend, and the horseman told him that the guide was of the Hazimi tribe. This was a Harith well. "The Hazimi may not drink at our wells -- he knew that." Lawrence told him: "So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are."

How prophetic, and so accurate.

[Bama]

And the Shiites want all the wells. The Sunni minority want their "share" and the Kurds in the north want away from the two.
The place needs to be partitioned. Maybe we should just wash our hands and turn it over to the U.N. But then Iran, who has been waiting 18 years while building a powerful military machine would pour a million troops in to eliminate the Sunni. They might do it anyway.
Is the oil worth it? We have a lot invested there and nothing to show for it to date. No doubt if we leave, the oil will end up in China via Iran.
I'm not sure we haven't washed out hands of it anyway, but nothing is going to happen before the elections. We move troops to put out fires and now are shifting to Baghdad and military men in Washington know that guerrilla wars are won in the country side.
Can you think of one dayam thing we have did right in Iraq? I don't mean morally right like removing Saddam. I mean right, like in the best interest of America. We need to turn it over to the U.N.(they can't make it any worse) and use out intelligence and resources to battle with the real enemy who is winning the war. Osama has no failures no matter how many bombing attempts and unsuccessful. Its the successful ones that count. And he has progressed to the point where he is now releasing high quality CNN like videos to recruit and increase his numbers.