Did 1,868 US Troops Die For Islam?

[ThomWV]

If I am reading the news correctly, concerning Iraq's Constitution and Government, George W. Bush seems to have done the unthinkable in this war against islamic extremists. He has committed the lives of One Thousand Eight Hundred Sixty Eight U.S. Soldiers, Marines, Navy and Air Force Personnel, as well as men and women from each state's National Guard and Reserves in the successful instillation of an Islamic State.

Let's be quite clear about what has happened. George W. Bush, by force of arms, has taken a secular state and turned it into a fundamentalist Islamic state and in so doing sacrificed the lives of almost two thousand US soldiers and the bodies of countless thousands more.

It is the Crusades in reverse.

[Jacobin]

1. Well if you think about it for a nano second

and we insist that they have elections, and if we insist that majority rules, and the majority are Shia, and almost all Shia want an islamic theocracy to govern them.....................its almost like, well, its fucking inevitable, isn't it?

[rzemanfl]

2. So far...n/t

[Wickerman]

3. What does a country expect from a man who could bankrupt

a catering company and cause an oil company to not find oil?

Love to watch the faithful spin this one.

[Sanity Claws]

4. as well as sacrificed the rights of all Iraqi women

Bush has managed to disenfranchise 50% of the population in his attempt to spread democracy.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. Not too different from 50,000+ lives being sacrified

in southeast Asia so Vietnam could go communist.

[Inland]

7. But we didn't SPONSOR it going communist.

We sponsor the process by which Iraq goes islamist theocracy.

Dying and losing is one thing. Dying, winning, dying, and then handing it away......

[Blue_In_AK]

9. Oh, I agree with that.

The situations aren't exactly parallel, but the futility of it all is.

[Inland]

6. Turns out. nt

[elehhhhna]

8. Evidently yes...and more to come, I fear. WAY TO GO GW!

We're number one! USA! USA!

[Crunchy Frog]

10. You should send that in as a letter to the editor

to as many publications as possible. That was an excellent summation.

[hootinholler]

11. Yeah, ain't karma a bitch? n/t

[The Magistrate]

12. So It Would Seem, Sir

The armed forces of the United States of America invaded the Middle East to create an Islamic Republic....

"Nothing can be made fool-proof: they are too ingenious."

[dflprincess]

13. No, mainly they died for Haliburton profits

What kind of government Iraq wound up with was of no real concern to the Bushies.