So what do you guys want first? The bad news or the bad news?
Today 26 were killed today in Baghdad while another barrage of mortar bombings hit homes in the surrounding regions.
Look I'm not going to burden you guys down with the details, and I don't mean to make light of the subject. As we've talked about before this is deadly serious business and I think everyone is addressing it as such except for the administration and Congress, but they live on Mars, which is really distant from Iraq. Just in the past week alone the numbers of dead have been growing at a substantial rate, yet the media can't seem to recognize that Iraq is in a state of Civil War, except for FOX News which thinks that's a good thing. If you need to know the details of today's bombing you can click on the link up there and find out the whole thing. What I want to focus on today is the complete lack of understanding that the administration shows in handling the situation. It's so grossly inept that it's on par with sheer callousness and apathy.
Despite what's going on in Iraq the Pentagon seems to be hell bent on dropping troop levels over there. In fact it's already begun moving troops away, lowering the number from 160,000 in December to 133,000, and if we're to believe Army Gen. George Casey more will be pulled out come the Spring.
Now you might say, "Well didn't you think that troops should be pulled out? Isn't this a good thing?" Well that's like torturing me for a week, telling me I'm going to die, and then ripping the electrodes off my chest and kicking me out the door naked. We destabilized the region, we infuriated the entire Middle East, we were wrong about WMDs, and after all that Bush swore that we were going to stand by the Iraqi people. Now, after three years of this crap, it finally gets back to him what we were saying all along, and he's leaving the region with an IOU. Should we leave Iraq to fend for itself, not only are we telling the world that we're undependable and we don't give a damm about any foreign nation, but we're creating a country that will truly hate our guts and be terrorist-friendly. Just because we pull out doesn't mean that Al-Qaida will follow. Now is the time when we have to get our NATO allies involved and turn this into a peacekeeping mission. We can't continue to go at it alone, but we sure as hell can't just turn around and forget it ever happened.
Another piece of news that made me think that I was three neurons short of a brain was a defense official, speaking off the record (and if I said what's to follow I would speak this only with my head dunked underwater), who claimed that the Iraqi police force did a "tremendous job" containing the sectarian violence in the last week. Well if a "tremendous job" is keeping Iraq from flipping upside down and burrowing itself in the Earth thus creating a race of mole people, then yes they did a "tremendous job." Telling the Iraqi police force they did a "tremendous job" last week is like telling that autistic kid who scored six three pointers in a game that he's going to be an NBA all-star. It was good for what resources they had, but it ain't the US marines. And by the way, this statement is coming only a week after the Pentagon dropped the level of Iraqi battalions that could fight without US troop support from 1 to 0.
0. That's just about the amount of time America has left to do the right thing.
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Of course America is going to end up doing the wrong thing. They started by doing the wrong thing. Just like the the softwood lumber tariffs imposed on British Columbian lumber. The WTO has ruled five times in Canada's favour stating that the tariffs are illegal. Return the 5 billion dollars you've stolen.
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