Monday, July 17, 2006
Was it all worth it?
They won't admit it, but Bush & Co. cutting and running from Iraq by Joseph Galloway.
...And the real news in Iraq is that the number of American troops who are fighting and dying in that place has fallen to 127,000 from a high of more than 160,000 late in 2005...Oil prices rally again, top $72 a barrel
...The politicians are cutting and running from their war even as they doggedly deny that the thought has ever crossed their minds. They're now as feverish to get out of Iraq as once they were feverish to get in...
...The ownership of a war that's being abandoned by the politicians who launched it and fouled it up beyond repair now falls to the U.S. Army and the Marine Corps, who never had orders to put enough boots on the ground to get the job done. Now they'll be called upon to do even more with even less...
...Nearly 2,600 Americans have died in Iraq so far, and 18,000 more have been wounded. How many more will die before the last of them board trucks and helicopters and depart this detour in the war on global terrorism?...
...Oil analyst John Kilduff of Fimat USA in New York said there would be a “painful runup” in gasoline prices as summer approaches, and he said oil prices could rise as high as $80 a barrel by the end of June. Purchased today, crude for June delivery costs $74 a barrel...I guess the plan to get Iraq's oil isn't panning out as well as it did in their minds. Lessening the amount of troops in Iraq isn't going to get us that oil, either. If you ask me, the apprehension of Saddam Hussein and killing of his sons wasn't a good enough reason for the loss of troops' lives, loss of Iraqi lives, the horrible high monetary costs, the hazardous leavings from bombs in the Iraq landscape and water, the vicious infectious diseases (such as typhoid and tuberculosis) attacking the Iraqi people, etc. But, hey, that's just me. Perhaps, to others, such as Halliburton, who managed to rake off a nice profit, it was worth it. To the "leaders" it was probably worth it. The biggest share of them, most likely, have stock in oil and warmongering companies, so they realized some nice profits, too.
