If we called the disaster in Iraq, not a WAR, but what it is, an OCCUPATION, it would be so much

[flpoljunkie]

easier to end it, and bring our troops home. "Victory is the only option" in this "occupation?" How do you win an occupation?

Why does the media continue to clothe the emperor's war?

[meganmonkey]

1. I agree

:thumbsup:

And you answered your own question - if they dare stop calling it a war, it would be over. And the owners of the media are the same (in some cases, anyway) as the owners of the defense companies, so they can't have that.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Fair comment

The initial intrusion was an an invasion - not a war. You cannot win an occupation - just concede gracefully. I don't see how the word victory can be used in the contaxt of Iraq at all.

[truth2power]

3. I ALWAYS refer to it

as an INVASION and an OCCUPATION. I think it's important to be accurate about what the US has perpetrated in Iraq.

[lapfog_1]

4. You know, you are absolutely right.

But, to tell you the truth, *I*'d be happy if the fucking MSM just called it the war ON Iraq, instead of the "War on Terror"(tm - BFEE, 2002-2010).

[havocmom]

5. Illegal, No-Win Occupation

is what it is. No way to secure the occupation of a nation that doesn't want you there unless you are willing to go in and totally destroy it, and even bushco seems hesitant to do that. That would be killing the goose that lay's Halliburton's golden egg.

This whole military incursion was nothing more than the kidnapping of US Troops and holding them for ransom. The bush/cheney junta are the bag men for the Corporate War Profiteers. They are turning blood, that or US troops and Iraqi civilians, into money. It is the most obscene alchemy mankind has devised.

[flpoljunkie]

6. Bush's final push described in The Guardian today is a final effort to control Iraq's oil supply...

not bring democracy to the Middle East. The media remains silent about this truth, as well.

[Kashka-Kat]

7. You got it! There is nothing to be "won" anymore--except maybe the peace....