Meanwhile in Iraq…

Our good friends the Saudis want us out of Iraq and are reportedly funding Iraqi Sunni insurgents. Our good friends the Israelis are worried that we will pull out of Iraq. Our good friend Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who paid a surprise visit to Iraq in his last few days, is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that would hold him personally responsible for allegations of torture in oversees military prisons. Our good friends the Iraqis are disputing US military claims (despite bodies to the contrary visible in sheets in the photo here) that only adults were killed, not children in a recent US air attack. The US military claims they only killed 20 suspected Al Qaeda members. Let's stop killing kids, get our of Iraq and impeach Bush, m'kay? Put the money going into the war toward hydrogen generating bacteria plants which could provide alternative power so we don't have to rely on foreign oil. Then, work on population control, global warming and repopulating our oceans. I doubt this is part of Bush's newest Iraq plans. In fact, he has decided to ignore 79 recommendations which would result in a gradual withdrawal of US troops by 2008.

"The [non-partisan] ISG report, even if ignored, spelled out the facts on the ground in Iraq and signalled the end of the neo-conservative dream of reshaping the Middle East. " - guarduk

Simple minded people talk about "the enemy" we are fighting in Iraq ... but who is this enemy exactly? They don't actually have a clue. Saddam is gone. He's been out of control for the last three years, since at least Friday the 13th, December 2003 yet Iraq continues to get worse. Who is our enemy in Iraq? "Al Qaeda!" Oh, really? Who is Al Qaeda? Is Al Qaeda causing the civil war in Iraq? What about the Sunnis? The Shiites? Most American's don't know the difference between the last two. Al Qaeda is at most 27 years old, but there is currently a 1,400- year-old split in Islam between Sunnis and Shiites. This not only fuels the militias and death squads in Iraq, it also "drives the competition for supremacy across the Middle East between Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia."