"What Have We Done?" (vets talking against the Iraq war).

[rodeodance]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080505C.shtml

"What Have We Done?"
By Dahr Jamail
Iraq Dispatches
Friday 05 August 2005

As the blood of US soldiers continues to drain into the hot sands of Iraq over the last several days with at least 27 US soldiers killed and the approval rating for his handling of the debacle in Iraq dropping to an all-time low of 38%, Mr. Bush commented from the comforts of his ranch in Crawford, Texas today, "We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq."

Just a two hour drive away in Dallas, at the Veterans for Peace National Convention in Dallas, I'm sitting with a roomful of veterans from the current quagmire.

When asked what he would say to Mr. Bush if he had the chance to speak to him, Abdul Henderson, a corporal in the Marines who served in Iraq from March until May, 2003, took a deep breath and said, "It would be two hits-me hitting him and him hitting the floor. I see this guy in the most prestigious office in the world, and this guy says 'bring it on.' A guy who ain't never been shot at, never seen anyone suffering, saying 'bring it on?' He gets to act like a cowboy in a western movie...it's sickening to me."

The other vets with him nod in agreement as he speaks somberly...his anger seething. .....

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1. all this talk about 'finishing the job'... what job is incomplete? wasn't

regime change the (bogus) original goal?

Seems the job description changes as often as the reason the 'job' was started in the first place. :grr:

[Catrina]

2. I think the original goal

was finding WMDs. It's hard to keep track though, because the 'job' he's talking about keeps changing. Besides, he and his cabal told us it would take 'months, maybe weeks'.

I heard one of them using the same rhetoric we heard about Iraq in reference to Iran on CNN this past week. That Iran is an 'imminent threat' and then, ignoring the report that came out stating that the new president of Iran is NOT a former hostage taker, this guy went on trying to rouse up the American people against yet another ME country, that 'Iran's new president is a former hostage taker'. The anchor on CNN did not correct him.

Someone needs to start asking him what his plans are regarding Iran ~

[acmavm]

3. No. The original goal was to invade Iraq and take over their oil.

WMDs, freedom, democracy, Saddam, none of that had one damn thing to do with it. NONE OF IT.

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4. exactly. The FIRST WORDS out of *'s mouth

when he announced the illegal invasion -- the LEAD SENTENCE -- was DON'T TOUCH THE OIL.

This, chimpenator announced, was first and foremost.