THE TRUTH BE TOLD

The American public is still being asked to believe facts and concepts which are not true. This has been going on since before our invasion of Iraq. Remember when we just couldn't wait for the United Nations to take action when Iraq did not comply with Resolution #1441? President Bush rejected Saddam's plea to send in the WMD inspectors. Bush said it was too late for that.

This is a fact: #1441 did not call for attacking Iraq if they did not comply. The resolution merely stated an indication of some strong response to be decided by the Security Council. That didn't work out to the intended conclusion because the neo-con owned Bush administration was bent on Shock & Awe.

Now our soldiers mired in Iraq have to duck to escape the violence which Shiites and Sunnis inflict on each other. About 100 Iraqis die each week in the civil war, a figure many times the number of our sad losses. The Iraqi fighters are called terrorists and insurgents by Secretary of State Condi and the boys in the band. Whatever you call the Iraq factions, they are engaged in a deadly civil war. Our troops don't have to put down insurgencies as much anymore, and they're not fighting terrorism on the level claimed by our leaders.

Getting out of the middle of a civil war is not to "cut and run." It is sanity. Iraq is not ours. (Except maybe for the oil - do you suppose?) American and British corporations controlled the oil fields before Saddam, so who knows?

Support the troops. Bring the liberators home.


IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE.