Wednesday, April 07, 2004

Some More I Told You So

This entry quotes an earlier posting from last July that seems pretty much to the point, given the recent developments in Iraq. 639 American soldiers have died so far in Iraq, and lately they’re dying at the rate of 10 a day or so. More than 18,000 American soldiers have been evacuated for medical reasons. Over 10,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed.

The cost of the war is somewhere in the neighborhood of $200 billion, but the figure is hard to pin down because the White House has consistently refused to provide budget data on the amount of money we have spent there. To date, there have been no weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq, and no connections between al Qaeda terrorism and Saddam Hussein have been established.

So much for “liberating cheering Iraqis” and “mission accomplished”. It’s a case of “ya got just what ya asked for”...

What the press has been prevented from showing you.
18 coffins on board a plane bound for Dover, Delaware.

“Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? Oh, I mean, it’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?”
Barbara Bush - March 18, 2003

Thu Jul 03, 2003

"Bring ‘em On"

WTF was Bush thinking yesterday when he said this?
“There are some who feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is bring ‘em on. We got the force necessary to deal with the security situation.”

It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see what the results will be. In the next few months, there will be a steady drumbeat of U.S. combat deaths - ambushes, guerrilla attacks, rocket-propelled grenades, improvised explosives made from the huge amounts of unexploded ordinance, you name it… Particularly vulnerable are low-flying aircraft, taking off and landing and helicopters, just like it was in Vietnam, which Iraq is seeming more and more like each day.

This is so stupid and irresponsible, and so in character…

- Bob Woods