Bush says no Iraq shift; criticism rises - Yahoo! News

Bush says no Iraq shift; criticism rises - Yahoo! News

The most astute comment I have heard on our lack of strategy for getting out of Iraq after the invasion came from a CIA analyst in the excellent documentary "Why We Fight". There was no exit strategy, he said, because we never intended to leave.

We are there for the oil. We are in a situation where the public in Iraq knows that, and many oppose the taking of their resources as recompense for "ridding them of a tyrant".

During our American Revolution, whose birthday we just celebrated, buckskin clad revolutionaries shot at the "red coats" out of trees, and were accused of being the "terrorists" of their day by Britain's King George III.

We are caught in a guerrilla warfare with people willing to "die a martyr" to oppose satanic imperialism. Meanwhile, the American public's young future is martyred for a cause few Americans fully understand, let alone support.

The only government that will have legitimacy with the Iraqis will be one that can kick our (U.S.) butts out of the country and demand sovereignty over its oil, and maybe even the Palestinian people, in general.

Maybe that's General Petraeus' plan: President al-Miliki declares Iraqi forces at war with U.S., "forcing" us to redeploy- to Iran.

At this point, nothing surprises me,

Donny Fix