The US has no idea what it has gotten itself into

[45th Med]

Dahr Jamail

01/18/04: (ICH) BAGHDAD:- Yesterday we get the news of a US military convoy north of Baghdad hit by a huge IED. A US convoy is searching for IED’s, when a huge bomb explodes under a Bradley, killing 3 US soldiers, and 2 Iraqi Civil Defense personnel.

This morning at 8am, a huge blast shakes my hotel, rattling my windows. At least one suicide car bomber with 1000 pounds of explosives has detonated his bomb at the front entrance of the CPA, killing 23 Iraqis, 2 Americans, and wounding at least 180 others.

US has no idea what it has gotten itself into

[Skittles]

1. it's not just the US

whenever I hear what it's like there, I try to imagine the children living in Iraq, what it must be like. My mum described to me the fear she felt hearing bombs drop around her as a child in England. So terrible.

[gristy]

2. That is a sad and unnerving report

I was skimming through Conason's book "Big Lies" while doing laundry tonight. It's a pretty infuriating yet at the same time depressing book. More depressing than anything for me, I think, because I've been immersing myself for so long in the horror of the near absolute power of our present gov't and what has happened, is happening, and will continue to happen in Iraq.

[beawr]

3. Oh, I think a few of "us" do

They just do not care.

[pansypoo53219]

4. the brits are still trying

to plaster over the charge of the light brigade.
what will it take for them all to 'get it'. a troop plane taken down? bremer killed? a MASSIVE attack on barracks with mass casualties?
too bad fucking idiot george did no bring democracy to afganistan FIRST, before going after his white whale sadaam.

[bluestateguy]

5. At the current pace will be at 900 dead by November

If * gets another term the number will grow into the thousands.

[teryang]

6. Good prediction

I wonder whether the election of a Democratic candidate will change that future. With the exception of Kucinich, I don't really see any major insight into what is going over there. There is a dubious notion that because we invaded, our troops have to stay "until the job is done." Our policy there is a failure, we have to let the Iraqi people sort it out themselves. We should provide aid, not occupation.