Now we are killing "militants." First it was "terrorists", then

[chieftain]

it was "insurgents" and now the media is attributing body count to killed militants. The lack of clarity of whom we are fighting is a measure of how immoral this war is. We have no rationale for what we are doing, we don't know whom we are doing it to, and we don't know what the milestone is that will allow us to stop the killing, maiming and lieing. The level of animosity we are storing up in the Middle East and the world is terrifying. The Democrats cannot be content with posturing for maximum political benefit in "08. Two more years of this is unacceptable. We have to summon the courage to either impeach this criminal regime or cut off funding for the war. If the oversight hearings lead to either outcome, fine. But if it is merely a way to criticize these thugs without risking the kind of action that could bring this debacle to a close it will be unforgivable.

[mike_c]

1. the real irony is that it is the U.S. occupation itself that has...

...created all those "militants."

[RC]

2. Maybe we got all the terrorists?

So why is war on terror not over?

[Union Thug]

3. Guess it's now the War on Militants (TM) n/t

[peacetalksforall]

4. Can anyone point me to a list of strcutures we've built for

us and the UK and any staff still remaining in Iraq. How much do we have invested in our 'Embassy? How many bases and how much money? Where do all the ocntractors stay - have we built anything for them and at what cost?

I'm thinking that all the companies who were represented in the infamous energy meetings with Cheney where the PNAC plan was presented or followed up on - all of them should pay the taxpayers for 'whatever and all' that is left behind.

[chieftain]

5. I am hopeful that Congress looks deeply into war profiteering

on the part of Bush/Cheney cronies. Since most Republicans worship at the altar of money, maybe the graft and corruption aspect of this debacle will turn them against Bush and the war.

[Karenina]

6. The U.S. is repeating the same pattern used

against Native Americans. Kill 'em off. Steal their shit.

[Radical Activist]

7. What is a militant?

If its military minded people who kill others, maybe we are the militants.

[chieftain]

8. It is a Catch 22 situation.

Since we have no idea who we are fighting, it will become more and more like Vietnam. Whoever we kill will have been a militant. So looking at the big picture and taking your post into account, militants will be the dead Iraqis and the live Americans.

[Coaster City]

9. My favorite movie Red Dawn has just been ruined.

I have to accept that the Americans were the bad guys in this movie. They should have just accepted the fact that they had been defeated. Instead they were militant that fought back against an occupying force using terrorirst tatics. I wasn't the only one that cheered when the boys killed the Russians and Cubans. All this time I thought I was doing the right thing. Now I am not all that sure.