Shock and Awe -- Part ?
While we're all caught up handicapping the presidential horse race, our soldiers are fighting fierce battles and dying in Iraq. The media have mentioned it only in passing.
Yesterday was the one year anniversary of Bush's surge speech. The Bushies have been bragging about how well it worked.
Yep, they say 'the surge' has restored order and things are calm. John McCain said so on TV, didn't mention that we were dropping bombs. All the Republicans on the debates think the Iraq War is doing just fine. Except for Ron Paul.
But we've been dropping 40,000 pounds of bombs, clearing areas so our troops can play 'Whack a Mole' again...pushing insurgents out of one area so they can pop up in another. Fighting an enemy who has infiltrated Iraqi security so they know dang well what's going to happen.
Too bad we can't bomb the Pakistan Government because it's bursting at the seams with al Qaeda.
From The Associated Press, Jan 10, 2008 --"U.S. bombers and jet fighters unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives during a 10-minute airstrike Thursday, flattening what the military called al-Qaida in Iraq safe havens on the southern outskirts of the capital.
The strikes, carried out above approaching troops, was part of Operation Phantom Phoenix, a nationwide campaign launched Tuesday against al-Qaida in Iraq.
....The attack came a day after the U.S. military reported that nine American soldiers were killed north of the capital in the first two days of a new offensive.
....Six soldiers were killed and four were wounded Wednesday in a booby-trapped house in Diyala, the U.S. command said. It also announced that three U.S. soldiers were killed and two wounded in an attack Tuesday in Salahuddin province, north of Diyala.
The toll marked some of the deadliest days for U.S. forces in Iraq since last fall. In all of December, 23 U.S. soldiers died in Iraq.[..]"
War is such an ugly, dirty, bloody business and it’s a damned shame that this one lingers on and on ticking out the clock of the Bush/Cheney administration because they desperately seek to establish a presidential legacy…or hand the mess over to the next president...whichever comes first.
And now I return you to Bush's fabulous peacekeeping mission in Jerusalem...
