[edited 18 January]
Sad month for the poor US soldiers. The cap of 3,000 casualties was reached and 20,000 soldiers are wounded and scarred for life. What will become of the families left behind and what will happen to the disabled? The Vietnam war legacy is not a good indicator. And for what?
Oh yes, the media are so negative and only report bad news. Iraq has now democracy, sort of. They can now continue to kill each other in a “free” land. So, if “victory” was declared some years ago, why send 20,000 more of troops? Are the hundreds of Iraqi people killed every month also made-up stories by the press?
A war for the wrong reasons, an invasion badly prepared and implemented. All those clever agencies watching the country were either clueless or their warnings were not taken seriously. Probably both. Many people knew the sectarian violence was a huge threat. Is the world a safer place? Surely not.
What to do? Difficult question. Leave Iraq or pour in more young people to be killed or maimed? Well at least the government who messed it all up is still in place and is now facing the music. More Americans finally realize it all went badly wrong. Somebody will have to clean up the mess. Solution: spend more billions of tax payers’ money to develop a new nuclear bomb. Find the logic here.

Not even to mention…
According to the UN in early January, the death toll for Iraqi civilians was 34,452 in 2005, plus 36,685 wounded. Of course some will not agree, just as they did with poor Blix who could not find “weapons of mass destructionwas not credible and could not be trusted”. And for sure, don’t show the body bags being shipped back home, nor (too much) the grieving families. Repeating the horror scenes of 9/11 is however OK. Hmmm. Sounds so familiar to us, looks like here they been exporting not just microwave ovens, but also certain government officials? Sanitizing information, “you are with us or against us (=traitors, unpatriotic, etc.)”, dictated truths. But this time, it’s NOT over here. Guess here some people must be “LOL”. They must feel vindicated in their policies.