Interesting Perspective on Iraq from Asia Times Online Damascus.....

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A balance sheet for America's Iraq

By Sami Moubayed

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HC25Ak03.html


DAMASCUS - Three years after the US invasion of Iraq, one cannot but wonder how the Americans missed a golden opportunity to create a secure democracy in the country to replace the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein.

Optimists in the Arab world, especially pro-Western and particularly pro-American Arabs, defended the United States until curtain fall, saying that it truly would root out terrorism from Iraq, and bring both stability and democracy to the Iraqi people.

Every one of those beliefs has been shattered - over and over again, since March 2003. As Iraq enters its fourth year since the war began, it is safe to ask: What has been achieved?

Apart from the downfall of Saddam, not a single achievement in Iraq is noteworthy. The country today is a "democracy" in civil war - a democracy where human life is being wasted, along with the dreams and security of the Iraqi people. Inasmuch as free elections are a great asset of which all oppressed people dream, they mean nothing if security is lacking.

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1. one need only read Greg Palasts newest article to know whats going down

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=483&row=0

Bush Didn't Bungle Iraq, You Fools
THE MISSION WAS INDEED ACCOMPLISHED
The Guardian
Monday, March 20, 2006

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by Greg Palast

Get off it. All the carping, belly-aching and complaining about George Bush's incompetence in Iraq, from both the Left and now the Right, is just dead wrong.

On the third anniversary of the tanks rolling over Iraq's border, most of the 59 million Homer Simpsons who voted for Bush are beginning to doubt if his mission was accomplished.


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or read Project of the new american century..pnac

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2. So does that mean that all the deaths were required for a pretend war?

That t;housands are in the hands of medical teams? That the infrastructure of Iraq and the families and careers of Iraqis had to be blown to bits? And does it mean that all the parallel stuff here in this country, plus un-believable debt helps PNAC's cause?

We've never heard that much about the oil ministers in Iraq.