2000 dead
by Steve Gillliard

The 2,000th American solider has been killed in Iraq. 2000 dead and we're losing. No one will enlist. Soldiers are facing their third tour. Most Americans oppose the war. Yet, they talk of a ten year commitment. With who's children? The Bush clan? No? The Army is now running a series of horrid comnmercials where kids, black kids talk to the parents about all the fun things they can do in the military. Truck convoys to Ramadi and patrols around Baghdad are not included. Losing your leg is not included. Having them make you a new skull isn't included. Being told there is no money for college isn't included. Watching your friends die in your arms isn't included. 2000 tragedies, 2000 lives cut short, 2000 families ruined. For what?

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One of Papa Bush's advisors, who said don't invade Iraq before the idiot Bush invaded Iraq, slams the idiot Bush in the latest New Yorker. You will have to buy the magazine but here are the highlights:

Brent Scowcroft "Breaks Ranks" with George W. Bush in Major New Yorker Article

A principal reason that the Bush Administration gave no thought to unseating Saddam was that Brent Scowcroft gave no thought to it. An American occupation of Iraq would be politically and militarily untenable, Scowcroft told Bush. And though the President had employed the rhetoric of moral necessity to make the case for war, Scowcroft said, he would not let his feelings about good and evil dictate the advice he gave the President. It would have been no problem for America's military to reach Baghdad, he said. The problems would have arisen when the Army entered the Iraqi capital. "At the minimum, we'd be an occupier in a hostile land," he said. "Our forces would be sniped at by guerrillas, and, once we were there, how would we get out? What would be the rationale for leaving? I don't like the term 'exit strategy' -- but what do you do with Iraq once you own it?"

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