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Legalizing Occupation: Bush's Last Maneuver in Iraq »

Posted by: populist 2 months, 1 week ago

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One can argue that no pleasant scenarios are possible in Iraq at any time under a US military presence. Iraq's past treasures were squandered immediately after its 'liberation' by US forces, & its present is daunted by bloodshed and uncertainty. Bush now wants to ensure that the country's future is also compromised by violence, humiliation, war

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populist2 months, 1 week ago

The U.S. military has absolutely no right, whether legal or moral, to be killing people who live in Iraq. It has no right to even be in Iraq. Why is this? Because neither the Iraqi government nor the Iraqi people ever attacked the United States. This fact makes the war in Iraq an optional one, not a necessary one.
To reiterate what should be obvious, the fact that the U.S. was attacked in 2001 does not give this country the right to attack and kill people who had nothing to do with those crimes. It is morally acceptable to go after criminals, but it is a crime to kill their families, their friends, their neighbors, or anyone else not criminally complicit.
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  donald512 months, 1 week ago
  
  Over a million dead, 5 million displaced... Dumya and his neocons should be rotting in a foriegn jail guilty of war crimes against humanity for which we helped hang Natzis and Japanese after WW2.
  How low Dumya has taken us in this ideological war against terrorism... he has insured another generation hates us!
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elizabeth842 months, 1 week ago

great work populist
hope to read more stories in future
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engineer2 months, 1 week ago

Populist
My feeling is that once this president is out of office, we will get out of Iraq and he and his horde will be tried as war criminals. It's just a matter of biding the time
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  populist2 months, 1 week ago
  
  I don't have the same feeling...in fact, I expect a war on Iran (or some other country), along with a continuing occupation of Iraq no matter who is president...
  but I sure hope you're right!
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TheRealizer2 months, 1 week ago

Every person in this this country who has any sense of responsibility should be deeply ashamed of what we as a nation have done in Iraq......
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