President George W Bush, Iraq is a lose-lose situation now!
Why did you invade and attack Iraq in the first place, Mr Bush? For personal revenge against Saddam Hussein, who had attempted to assassinate your father? For laying down your personal long-term legacy like that of President Harry Truman who left office in 1952? For weapons of mass destruction, which have been proven there were none? For oil and energy? For the control of the Middle East which can be done by Israel? Whatever!
The fact remains that Iraq is obviously a lose-lose situation now. You have only two options: One, to stay the course and bleed to death and lose more of the US reputation in the whole world. Two, to withdraw as fast as possible and let Iraq go its own ways.
Why must you care whether Iraq would be sliced into pieces? Wouldn't it be better for Iraq to be divided into smaller states? It would then never become strong enough again to post a threat to the US and the world, isn't it? Why must you worry whether Iraq's neighbors would go for a land grab? Why should you bother whether the Sunni or the Shiite dominates the government? Leave Iraq alone and she would sort out her own problems, the problems which you have contributed greatly, the problems the hastily executed late President Saddam Hussein had managed to solve or subdue for many years. Though there were some atrocities, the country was peaceful as a whole. In fact, you could have made use of Saddam Hussein to counter the Al Qaeda. Sadly, you have lost that opportunity. Why did you go and stir up the hornets' nest and opened the Pandora box in the first place?
Now, you are opening yet another Pandora box! Why must you strike into the painful heart of the Vietnamese people again? Are you trying to exorcise the ghosts of Vietnam? Are you saying that the US should have stayed in Vietnam in 1975? Are you regretting that the US had lost the opportunity to dominate East Asia by not defeating the Vietnamese people? Would you like to launch another invasion on Vietnam? What actually are you trying to do?
In trying to win support from your own Republicans for the coming debate, you are now antagonizing Vietnam directly and East Asia generally. Don't you think so? I don't think you could win over Mr John Warner of Virginia to your side. There is no parallel between Iraq and Vietnam. Iraq was a single entity that is now split. Vietnam was a country politically divided that is now united. And Vietnam was the US's most humiliating defeat in the history of the USA and in the history of the World. Iraq has not yet become as humiliating as Vietnam if you can pull your forces out systematically instead of last minute chaos. Before you launched your invasion on Iraq, many countries, including Russia, had warned you that once you enter Iraq, you would be creating a second Vietnam. But you didn't care. You just went ahead. And ironically now you are trying to equate Iraq with Vietnam. It is really fascinating!
That clearly shows that the US has not learned the painful lessons offered by Vietnam. After 32 years yet you have not learned. History repeats itself again. Simply intriguing!
If the US really wants to help Iraq, pull your forces out first. Let Iraq bleeds itself. And after everything has settled, then move in to help on humanitarian ground, especially for Iraq's neighbors. They would be overwhelmed with millions of refugees trying to escape from the free-for-all battle zones that will be created by the vacuum caused by a US withdrawal. Pull your forces out of Iraq but don't send all of them home yet. Position some of them around Iraq and wait for the right time to move in again, on humanitarian missions under the UN umbrella. So, start to make friends now and start to lobby for UN's support at the same time. That is the only way.
When you stirred up a hornets' nest, there is no way you can try to appease each and every hornet that aims to bite you. They have gone berserk! So, simply leave the hornets alone. Run far far away from the hornets first. When the hornets felt hunger and started to devour one another, then you standby and watch. Once most of the aggressive hornets have either died or calmed down, then you move in to take hold of the whole hornets' nest. I believe that is the only way.
Try it!
The Garuda - 25 August 2007.
7 comments:
Hi garuda; it's so wonderful to read You telling the Bush in such direct and sympathetic manner. A conceited man and the likes of him locally do not deserves any prolusion. These are people who think they rule and change the World. They do not understand that with or without them(elite, conceit, deceit or whatever one likes to call them) the World exists, our forefathers exist, we and they exist. Whether they are worth multi millions(dollars) per year or nothing does'nt matters to us. We work for our own survival and depend not on them. Guy like Bush thinks they can play god, however dust to dust is how we all end up equal; cheers from scb.
Hi, SCB,
I am actually a bit busy body. Many people think that it is good for Singapore if the US continues to stay in Iraq. However, I think otherwise.
What I believe is that the earlier there is real peace in Iraq, the better. The way things are going on, endless killings by mad bombers, terrorists, local Iraqi troops as well as US and Coalition troops, is real madness. The common folks suffer tremendously, while the politicians are having a good time with International aids passing through their 'oily' hands.
So, I think it is better to short-circuit the whole thing once and for all. Then real peace would return. Likewise, our present predicament also needs a short-circuit of the whole system, then real progress will return.
Real progress means that commoners must benefit, not just the politicians and the elites benefiting.
garuda, I must say I agree with all that You said. Irag was a peaceful and prospering nation until the Bush upsets it. In return Bushes' USA will hardly have peace for a long time to come. He can expect sniping vengeances for a long time to come for it is not just a political conflict but a deadly cultural and religious one as well. Bush is damned forever in history for bullshitting about weapons of mass destructions. As for local situation, Nature has not being kind to us but some people make it even worse. In any case, we the people and our leaders will have to face the problems together, like it or not. Everyone has to be responsible and answerable for the predicaments we face; from scb.
The war has become an excuse for unscrupulous companies like Haliburton to make millions while innocent people die around them.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20430153/
Haliburtons' profits made from the Irag Invasion are hardly enough to cover the expenses the US incurs in the wars in Irag and Afganistan. Depending on how many fighter jets, Apache helicopters, tanks and soldiers are destroyed, expenses could run into millions per day, week or month. And the value of life is simply unquantifiable to love ones. I will not be surprise that Bush may resort to nuclear weapon, there is high probability. Thanks from scb.
Hi, Marc and SCB,
According to the latest US figures released, the weekly expenditure amounts to about US$2b per week, meaning about US$8b a month. This figure could be exaggerated. Or, it could have broadly covered both combat and non-combat expenditures plus financial aids to the US-sponsored Iraqi Govt for the reconstruction of the country. And this amount may not necessary come from the US alone.
However, the amount of expenditure cannot be equated to the sufferings of the millions of innocent Iraqis who have nothing to do with either Saddam Hussein or Bush's or UN's decision to invade their country and bring the tremendous hardship and sufferings upon them, though the politicians would like to say that the invasion was meant to liberate the people of Iraq. But is it meaningful to liberate a people by inflicting more and more hardship and sufferings?
You may realise that the value of life is simply unquantifiable to love ones. This is true to the Iraqis also (estimated 700,000 civilian deaths), not just to the families of US soldiers who have died (4,000 US troops and counting of 100 per month). And what about the thousands of unaccounted Iraqi troops who have perished during the US-led invasion and the subsequent mopping-up operations?
The Garuda.
Hi Marc, this apology may have come lately but I do sincerely hope You will kindly accept. I responded to your Haliburton Comment without addressing nor acknowledging You, that was quite a bad oversight, please do forgive and I look forward to your participations; sincerely from scb to Marc and garuda.
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