THE VICTORS OF IRAQ NINE YEARS?

After almost nine years of fighting, BILLIONS of misdirected taxpayers dollars, thousands of United States military and hundreds of thousands of Iraq citizens DEAD, the United States  military is leaving…..pulling out …. well almost.

Left behind is a war torn country with a designer  “Government of National Unity”. Dysfunctional in practice,  a parliament of distrust void of reliability, “representing” inherited historical ethnic hatred with bitter combustible cultural and religious anger.  Most certainly not the government of “National Unity”.

As the American troops depart, the Iraq government is already in crisis. An arrest warrant is issued for the Sunni Vice President.  Each day the serious political crisis translates on to the streets in explosive violent  inhuman suicide deaths creating the atmosphere of turbulence, fear, terror and horror as the world watches.

Who won this war?  NOT the United States….after the invasion and almost nine years occupation by Goliath armies supported by a gigantic military budget larger than all the countries of the world combined, paid by hundreds of billions of misguided taxpayers monies, WHAT REWARD IS THERE?   A peaceful Iraq? A more tranquil Middle East? An earned respect for the United States? Did any of the Bush/Cheney/ predictions materialize? Did the countries of the area topple domino like into the democracies painted by the Bush Administration brush  after the citizens witnessed the American misplaced might in “SHOCK AND AWE” and the following nine years.

The WINNER….is Iraq’s old adversary and neighbor, IRAN, who now has the power and ability to fill the political and military vacuum created and financed by  the US and paid by the struggling US taxpayer, the thousands of military dead and the civilians in the hundreds of thousands.

FOR WHAT?  SHAME!

 

 

WHAT HAPPENED? THE AMERICAN DREAM?

Painfully we are realizing that our American Dream is vanishing before our eyes.  Our vision of America is quickly becoming an imagination, a muse, and for too many citizens a nightmare.

For too long we have sold ourselves EVERYONE CAN LIVE THE DREAM, EVERYONE CAN GET RICH AND IN AMERICA NO ONE GETS HURT, AN EQUAL PLAYING FIELD FOR ALL.  This pipe dream has exploded as devastating and calamitous as any bomb in the needless exorbitant Iraq war.

WHAT HAPPENED?

Simply the already rich, connected, and powerful grabbed all the gold!!  They seized the gilt and ran!  They then used all their vast fortune to influence if not outright BUY government protection, favors, and the media.  Leaving everyone else to scrounge waiting for the “trickle down” effects as promised.  Nothing fell from the table, no “trickle down”, no coins fell, and the American Dream became a reality BUT for the tiny few. WE ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN.

We have made the majority of citizens foreigners in their own country, taken away their dream. Inequality of income and political nfluence has become revolting as we are forced to watch millions of Americans fall into poverty.  We fail to educate our children and complain as we witness other nations quickly pass our dismal educational goals.  We are the only great society that encourages profit making at the expense of the sick and ill. We are willing to spend 700 billion a year on the military machine, but allow veterans to be on the streets and in poverty on their return.  We allow millionaires and billionaires to select and control the politicians to their benefit.

The DREAM?  poor choices, poor politics, greed, excess, piggishness have killed what was the envy of the world.

WE SHOULD ALL BE ASHAMED