Iraq War as War Crime (Part One)

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/031708.html

Editor’s Note: The Iraq War – now ending its fifth bloody year – represents not only a human tragedy of enormous consequence and possibly the greatest strategic blunder in U.S. history but also a systemic failure of American political and journalistic institutions.

Instead of checking George W. Bush’s imperial impulse for the good of the Republic, the Congress – including Sen. Hillary Clinton and other prominent Democrats – and the national press corps tended to their careers and their political viability.

In recognition of this tragedy – and in honor of the thousands of American dead and the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead – we are publishing the first of two excerpts from Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush:

Iraq’s “Day of Liberation” – as George W. Bush called it – was supposed to begin with a bombardment consisting of 3,000 U.S. missiles delivered over 48 hours, 10 times the number of bombs dropped during the first two days of the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

Officials, who were briefed on the plans, said the goal was to so stun the Iraqis that they would simply submit to the overwhelming force demonstrated by the U.S. military. Administration officials dubbed the strategy “shock and awe.”



I don't think the Iraqis were Shocked or Awed by the 3,000 U.S. missiles delivered over 48 hours. I think what happened is they got mad and wanted revenge instead.

Whodathunk?

Don

[mdmc]

1. I really don't know what the Iraqis were thinking

probably that Saddam would still be in power after the USA lost interest...

[RC]

2. And revenging they are.

5 years and over 100,000 dead and they are still showing no signs of letting up driving the invaders back out. All the high tech death machines we have are no match against their cheap road side bombs.

War is a crime. Why are we allowing it to continue year after year?

[malaise]

3. Genocide

Arrest the war criminals.