| States was meant to be. Our founding fathers hated democracies. A variety of Iraqi politicians are vying for power and trying to build bases of support within the Iraqi population. Some have even started organizing opposition to the occupying American forces. Everyone from Shiite radicals to communists have been seizing villas in Baghdad and adorning them with their respective emblems. Lt. Gen. David McKiernan, the commander of ground forces in Iraq, issued a proclamation putting Iraq's politicians on notice, saying, "The coalition alone retains absolute authority within Iraq." He warned that anyone challenging the American-led authority could be arrested. Currently, there is chaos in Iraq and our soldiers are confronted with a conquered land with sometimes hostile inhabitants who still attack them. Instead of being the welcome liberators we are now the unwanted occupying army. While our soldiers struggle to protect themselves and provide some sort of law and order (they’ve been criticized for not stopping looting), they must also be careful of being accused of unnecessarily firing on innocents who are physically hostile to them (if not by weapons, then by angry presence). It is difficult to discern the enemy who may try to kill you from those who just want you to leave their country. Our soldiers must be somewhat bewildered. We got rid of a tyrant who brutalized the majority population, yet we are unwelcome in the country. The Iraqis are ungrateful hosts. U.S. soldiers have done a good but difficult job. They’ve made mistakes and will continue to make mistakes because they are human. They are following the orders of an administration that has taken unconstitutional authority handed to it by a timid and spineless Congress. If Congress had declared war on Iraq as they are required by the Constitution, then President Bush would have only been carrying out the dictates of an equal branch of our government. Instead, Congress told the President that he could wage whatever war he wanted for what ever reason he determined. Congress acquiesced to the dictates of the Bush power elite. We’ve searched for the elusive Weapons of Mass Destruction and claimed to have found them so many times only to have the “find” turn out to be nothing, that some people are beginning to think that the term WMD may actually mean Words of Mass Disinformation. Now our government is preparing us for the possibility that they won’t be found. Why did we attack Iraq? Wasn’t it WMDs? Or was that reason last week’s? Many mainline reporters claimed that our military would get bogged down in a Vietnam-style quagmire, but they were mistaken when our military rolled through Iraq with minimal resistance. Those pockets of heavy resistance only lasted for a short duration. What those reporters missed was the quagmire that we are now in – after winning the war. We are now entrenched in a country full of people who resent our presence even though we rid them of a dictatorial tyrant. Innocent Iraqi citizens are being killed as wary troops open fire on protestors who may be accompanied by a small number of dissidents firing weapons at our troops. Thanks, President Bush and entourage. ------------------------------------- Kirt Poovey, former gubernatorial candidate, firefighter, and business owner, is the author of Prophecy - 2024 - which can be purchased at http://www.prophecy2024.com. Also visit http://www.christian-patriots.us Kirt welcomes your comments at ecoh2oks@juno.com. ------------------------------------- Permission to reprint this article is granted providing the original author is cited and a link to PRISON PLANET.com is included. The views expressed in this article may not necessarily be those of Alex Jones or Paul Joseph Watson. ------------------------------------- PRISON PLANET.com INFOWARS.com |
| Aftermath of the War By Kirt R. Poovey We’ve won the war in Iraq and now the Iraqi citizens want the United States to go home. That is not going to happen though because that was not are goal for fighting the war. We said that the war was to get rid of Saddam Hussein and let the Iraqi people have freedom and the right to chose who rules them. However, we’re not going to let them set up an Islamic state like Iran even though sixty percent of them are Sunni Muslim and it is assumed they would push for such a state. So much for self-determination. We’re going to set up Iraq as a democracy – not a constitutional republic like the United |
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