Quagmire in Mess-o-potamia

First off I'd like to post this excellent interview with CNN's reporter Lara Logan.

She is on location in Iraq detailing how reporters have lost freedom to report stories. It shed a lot of light on how the journalists are almost completely under control of the United States Military. Journalists can only see what the forces provide them a chaperoned guide to. It displays exactly how full of sh*t the right-wing commentators are who blame the down-turn in public support for the battle, solely on the backs of the media. This country has freedom of the press, and without it we would have no way of understanding how poorly this administration is handling the Iraq mess it created. We aren't quite a police state, ... yet.



The difficulty is now the "right" thing to do may not necessarily be high-tailing out of Iraq, but rather beefing up the contingency which is stretched too thin.

We will pull out. The U.S. does not get it, and politicians are nothing more than an extension of American selfishness, and could really care less what happens there. What ever does happen, in the long run, someone will find a clever way to spin it so they can get "re-elected".

Politicians are the equivalent of crooked car mechanics who purposefully put a component in your automobile that will shortly fail. They are already writing the next chapter before it even occurs, you can bet on it.

As I've said, in light of the revelations of the faulty intelligence, this is something that should have never happened. Early on, several months before when Colin Powell spoke to the UN, I believed that perhaps it was a legitimate cause. When I began learning the statistics of continual destruction that the U.S. unleashed on Saddam's arsenal since 1991, I began to believe it for what it is, a giant pack of lies.

In fact here is Colin & Condy speaking before the big UN speech on the very subject.
WHAT ARE WE DEALING WITH??



Lies simply...nothing more than cold decption.

The Bush Administration has made the world a more dangerous place and created an anarchy and a quagmire of suffering which has no end in sight. Iraq is doomed to become the next hot bed of terrorist training camps, (which I'm certain it currently is, in spite of the American forces) and eventually, I predict could become a contested region, especially when we retreat. This isn't Vietnam....It isn't simply going to slowly dissipate after we leave.

It really all does sort of lend credence to conspiracy theory, although I think the notion of the U.S. blowing up the WTC is completely mad.

On a lighter note:

Check out this hilarious spoof of Iraq news, very much in the vein of Monty Python.