letter to editor re: "facing grim realities in Iraq&

[jimboloco]

Editorial: No easy exit from this war St Pete Times Thursday Dec 23.
Facing the grim realities in Iraq, President Bush must bolster American troops with reinforcements, proper equipment and support from our allies.

Subject: editorial "No easy exit from this war"

RE: "Facing the grim realities in Iraq, President Bush must bolster American troops with reinforcements, proper equipment and support from our allies.

A Times Editorial

Published December 23, 2004"
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/12/23/Opini ... _thi.shtml

The hardest obstacle to America's exit from the Iraq War is , in fact, not a logistics or tactical problem, but indeed a perceptual one.

That is the hardest reality to accept. Ultimately we will have to accept the tactical reality with ongoing casualties, no elections, low to no oil flow, a total quagmire nightmare, then our rationalizations for staying will begin to unravel.

We are in the bargaining phase of the grief process, unable to accept the grim reaity we wandered into, never questioning the president, the military political setup in overwhelming compliance, though a few bright shining voices of clarity and dissent have been heard.

Iraq willl be as it should and is not our business; it is the business of the oil companies and their profeteering elite, for whom we carry onward, bleeding and suffering as we do so.

Waking up to the immorality of this war is the key, along with understanding that the Iraq War is not in the American public's best interests. Wars are fought when the perception exists that there is something to be gained by military action, warfare, in any given situation.

When this perception is questioned, or when it is disproved, then the rationale for said war is gone, and the grief process can move forward towards acceptance.

The Iraq War is wrong and both America and Iraq will be better off when our military forces withdraw completely from Iraq and whomever remains does so unarmed in goodwill.

[Anonymous-one]

Lightning Rod wrote , Mon Dec 20, 2004 :
Yes, it looked like he was speeding. I think this whole government is speeding. They are speeding toward a brick wall called reality.


Countdown to impact ,starting in .......

A-O.