The New American Empire

President George W. Bush maintains that we're 'kickin' ass' in Iraq while thousands of other people die for an idea he can't admit was wrong, and won't stick his own neck out for. Why don't we send the suits to war? They're the ones who want it so bad. Regardless of General Patreus's testimony that we are seeing military success and moving closer to reaching coalition military goals, these are just that, military goals, and do not speak largely to the overall situation in Iraq. It was stated, among a slew of other half truths by the crooked smirks of our country's administration, that our overall goal was a self governing and free Iraq. This implies that the Iraqis would be free to choose their own government, and that the Iraqi people would be autonomous over their own country, without the rule of despots or occupying foreign nations. Yet today, seventy nine percent of Iraqis disapprove of the presence of American troops, while fifty seven percent call attacks on American soldiers 'acceptible.' And still we hear the languid cries of 'stick with it' emanating from the whitehouse. It seems to me that this absolute lack of responsiveness to the wishes of Iraqi civilians flies entirely in the face of the idea that we were ever there to create a free and independent Iraq. It exposes yet another lie by a group of people who have created a situation to which there is no good way out, and have done so with repeated lies and slanders in the name of the American people. George W. Bush is a textbook war criminal, and a menace to the national security of the United States.

This from 'The Carpetbagger Report' as of September 10, 2007:

"Seventy-nine percent of Iraqis oppose the presence of coalition forces in the country, essentially unchanged from last winter — including more than eight in 10 Shiites and nearly all Sunni Arabs. (Seven in 10 Kurds, by contrast, still support the presence of these forces.)

Similarly, 80 percent of Iraqis disapprove of the way U.S. and other coalition forces have performed in Iraq; the only change has been an increase in negative ratings of the U.S. performance among Kurds. And 86 percent of Iraqis express little or no confidence in U.S. and U.K. forces, similar to last winter and again up among Kurds.

Accusations of mistreatment continue: Forty-one percent of Iraqis in this poll (vs. 44 percent in March) report unnecessary violence against Iraqi citizens by U.S. or coalition forces. That peaks at 63 percent among Sunni Arabs, and 66 percent in Sunni-dominated Anbar.

This disapproval rises to an endorsement of violence: Fifty-seven percent of Iraqis now call attacks on coalition forces “acceptable,” up six points from last winter and more than three times its level (17 percent) in February 2004. Since March, acceptability of such attacks has risen by 15 points among Shiites (from 35 percent to 50 percent), while remaining near-unanimous among Sunnis (93 percent)."