THERE IS NO GOOD NEWS COMING FROM IRAQ
Oh, woe is me! There is no "good news" coming out of Iraq! No nothing which I can spin to my benefit and lord over all the anti-war despots and protestors!
You know, that's the funny thing about this failed conflict in Iraq: There is no good news coming out of Iraq.
If there was, the Malaki government wouldn't be close to collapsing like the country's power grid is right now. Or the fact that Baghdad doesn't have any running water.
Al-Qaeda being defeated in Iraq? Hardly. All we're doing is hitting the same targets over and over--hoping for a different outcome. But each time we do, we end up killing more civilians than the enemy in the process.
And blaming our failures on the enemy isn't going to make ourselves look any better.
Just ask Private Green--whom got a 110-year sentence for the rape and murder of an 14-year-old Iraqi girl and her family.
Or other soldiers recently convicted of their heinous crimes against Iraqi civilians.
Or the fact that the surge isn't working like the US military had hoped. Iraqi reconstruction and reconciliation failing. Or billions of our tax-money vanishing like a fart in the wind.
And on top of that, we have reports of the Saudis are openly funding the Iraqi insurgency. Didn't we just dump $20B worth of arms over the next 4 years on top of them--hoping to bribe them to partake in the stabilization of Iraq? (Which is looking more and more elusive by the day.)
Yep.
Good news, right?
No. A reality check.
Which is something that some people can't handle at this given time.
Schuyler Thorpe
xxxth Street xx #X001
Everett, WA 98204
(XXX)-XXX-XXXX
You know, that's the funny thing about this failed conflict in Iraq: There is no good news coming out of Iraq.
If there was, the Malaki government wouldn't be close to collapsing like the country's power grid is right now. Or the fact that Baghdad doesn't have any running water.
Al-Qaeda being defeated in Iraq? Hardly. All we're doing is hitting the same targets over and over--hoping for a different outcome. But each time we do, we end up killing more civilians than the enemy in the process.
And blaming our failures on the enemy isn't going to make ourselves look any better.
Just ask Private Green--whom got a 110-year sentence for the rape and murder of an 14-year-old Iraqi girl and her family.
Or other soldiers recently convicted of their heinous crimes against Iraqi civilians.
Or the fact that the surge isn't working like the US military had hoped. Iraqi reconstruction and reconciliation failing. Or billions of our tax-money vanishing like a fart in the wind.
And on top of that, we have reports of the Saudis are openly funding the Iraqi insurgency. Didn't we just dump $20B worth of arms over the next 4 years on top of them--hoping to bribe them to partake in the stabilization of Iraq? (Which is looking more and more elusive by the day.)
Yep.
Good news, right?
No. A reality check.
Which is something that some people can't handle at this given time.
Schuyler Thorpe
xxxth Street xx #X001
Everett, WA 98204
(XXX)-XXX-XXXX
posted by Schuyler Thorpe | 5:20 PM
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