There’s a ban on vehicles right now in Baghdad, the city that John McCain claims is part of the “success” of the prolonged military escalation that Republicans like to call “the surge”. In spite of that ban, and in spite of Moqtada Al-Sadr’s cancellation of a mass protest, Reuters is reporting that over 70 people have been killed so far this week in Sadr City, a part of Baghdad.
Among the dead are children.
McCain claims that Iraqi government soldiers are ready to fight and taking the lead, but American soldiers have been required in the newest round of street fighting in Iraq’s capital city. Five more American deaths were reported yesterday.
More rockets and mortars have hit the Green Zone too. Why do they even bother keeping up the pretense of calling it the “Green Zone” anymore? Is a green zone green when it suffers attacks week after week?
Oh, but George W. Bush is going to give a speech about Iraq today. Why, just think of what Bush’s speeches about Iraq have accomplished in the past!
Yeah, and after “re-branding” himself, he’s suddenly the front runner according to NPR which has become more and more of another Republican mouthpiece.
How can anyone in their right mind even think of having another 4 to 8 years of Bush-like mentality and policies?
Bush and Cheney and all the neocons who provided the “legalese” for them should be prosecuted and put in jail for war crimes, lying to foment an oil-grab disguised as a “war on terra,” and all the shifting of debt from the wealthy to what’s left of the dwindling middle class, not to mention selling our national parks, shorelines and Alaskan frontier to coal, oil and lumber companies for free resources to sell.