A great short read; A M.I.T. Scholar puts to rest the lies about Iraq.

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http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/44771/

Ten Fallacies About the Violence in Iraq

The escalating violence in Iraq's civil war is now earning considerable attention as we pass yet another milestone
-- U.S. occupation there, in two weeks, will exceed the length of the Second World War for America. While the
news media have finally started to grapple with the colossal amount of killing, a number of misunderstandings
persist. Some are willful deceptions. Let's look at a few of them:

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2. The killers do it to influence U.S. politics. This was the mantra of right-wing bloggers and cable blowhards like
Bill O'Reilly, who asserted time and again before November 7 that the violence was a "Tet offensive" designed to
tarnish Bush and convince Americans to vote for Democrats. This is American solipsism, at which the right wing
excels. If anything, the violence has grown since November 7.

English-language sources have more than 1,000 dead since the Bush rejection at the polls. Bill, are the Iraqi fighters
now aiming at the Iowa caucuses in '08?

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10. Trust the same people who caused or endorsed the war to tell us what to do next. We know who they are:
Bush, Cheney, McCain, and other cronies; the neo-cons now increasingly on the periphery of power but still
bleating (Wolfowitz, Feith, Perle, Adelman, Lieberman), the liberal hawks, and the right-wing media (Krauthamer,
Fox News, Glenn Beck, phalangist bloggers, et al). They say, "just finish the job." Just finish the job... at a human
cost of how many more dead? How many lives ruined? How much more damage to U.S.-Arab relations? How much
anti-Muslim racism fomented to justify the killing?

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1. Oh, what a web we weave when we first start to deceive

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2. The die is cast and sooner or later we are getting out but ....

.... bush will not or can not admit a mistake so we stay and
our people keeping dying and having to kill because that is
what troops do in combat. And somewhere bin Laden is laughing
his ass off.

BTW a real good friend's son in the 101 airborne just got his
orders to go to Iraq.

All the bush kids, Cheney's spawn, and all the other neo con's kids
should be ship over there post haste. College republicans and Rush's
ditto heads can join 'em too.

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3. Are we waiting till we kill a million Iraqis. We are over 2/3rds of the way

there already!

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4. bush can not or will not admit a mistake ...

... and all the dead and wounded from this blunder do not bother
him one wit. He is soulless.

Hell he can not even go to Iraq and meet with "the freely elected"
government after a longer period then WW II of U.S. military action.




Churchill and "Ike" who visited the front lines during WW II.

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5. He and his family and his "associates" are pure evil' We need to keep

pointing that out as well as pointing out the horrific suffering that we are imposing on Iraq, Afganistan, Lebanon, Columbia and every other place where we are fomentinf distruction and disaster.

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7. Amen

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6. a cost/benefit analysis--no way, nation building has no investment limits