Good Times In Iraq


by Owen Teach - Date: 2007-04-13 - Word Count: 413 Share This!

Well it's been about three and a half years since we invaded Iraq and according to our fearless leader we are winning. Gee thats funny because our new defense secretary Bobby Gates has recently stated that in fact we are not winning the war. However Gates agrees with the president that failure in Iraq would cause calamity that would destabilize the region and weaken the credibility of our the nation. It seems to me that Bush has already accomplished most of that. We have back our selves in to a corner in the middle east and are left with a few options:

A)We could pull out immediately and say to f***ery with Iraq and all its problems. All though this seems enticing it would give the impression that America is like a kid poking at an anthill with a big stick then running home after being bitten, which isn't to far from the truth.

B) We implement a short term increase the size of the military so we could squash the opposition once and for all. But don't we have enough trouble as it is convincing the Iraqi people that we are not there to take over their country.

C: lessen the number of troops in Iraq in order to focus on training the Iraqi police and militia to take care of the problem themselves. So far the training of the Iraqi militia has run into several roadblocks, mainly a lack of discipline over the men. Most of the men reject the idea of being stationed away from their families and frequently disappear for days at a time mostly to visit family and deliver money to them since there is no national banking system to utilize. Some just decide they are over it and abandon their post completely. Yet there is no policy within the militia to crack down on this problem and the leaders are left impotent.

If none of these other ideas work we could also use good old fashioned diplomacy with Iraq's neighboring countries Iran and Saudi Arabia. This idea sounds good in theory except both nations are big supporters of terrorism and the president of Iran (whose name I cannot pronounce or hope to spell) is a nut job who denies the Holocaust and preaches the downfall of the West and the destruction of Israel.

Whatever coarse of action the president decides to take it is my belief that America is f***ed and we should all move to Canada. See ya up north eh!


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-Owen Teach

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