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A Position of Fear and Failure

by Susan Parker

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So now we have your president wandering around in Iraq, asking soldiers, “How’s morale?” This is useful stuff. What soldier or civilian worker would respond honestly to the boss? Magnificent waste of time. Then, curiously, your president went on to say, “…When we begin to draw down troops from Iraq, it will be from a position of strength and success, not from the position of fear and failure…”

What is he talking about? Does he think this comment elicits thoughts of victory? I think that’s how you define “success” in a war… victory. Exactly what is there to “win” in Iraq? What could the definition of success possibly be? As far as I can tell, “success” in Iraq is defined as “we get their oil.” That is why we are there… to make sure their oil is under our fingernails, and to tear things up for Haliburton to make a fortune fixing, right? There’s your victory.

As much as we hear about a diplomatic solution, I think the design is that we are not supposed to hear about the negotiations to get the oil, and we are apparently having a hard time wresting it from their grasp.


Posted in General on September 4th, 2007

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