This article, with its accompanying photo of an Iraqi protester heaving a rock at Iraqi policemen during a demonstration over the absence of jobs, paints a revealing picture of this "liberated" nation. The American-trained "Iraqi police" fired on the crowd (that's real bullets, folks, directed at their fellow citizens), injuring at least one.
Just for a moment reflect on this: When we liberated France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Japan (to name a few) after World War II, did we suffer daily casualties? Were there bombings of rival factions, acts of rampant criminality, deeply-held hatreds of our troops, rocks thrown by Dutchmen at Dutchmen?
Bush's war was not liberation. It was an invasion, just as the Nazis invaded France. The police we train are our puppets--collaborators--and our troops are Occupiers, trained in wartime skills and no better at persuading the Iraqis that we are their saviors than was the Wehrmacht in persuading de Gaulle.
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