Periodically the Pentagon issues a statement about how it has lost track of hundreds of thousands of weapons in Iraq. Recall the images of Iraqis rummaging through unguarded ammunition dumps in the early stages of the war.
Keeping this is mind, recall how the MSM trumpets the calls of the Bush administration and its right wing base, to blame Iran for the deaths of American troops in Iraq by supplying weapons to the 'insurgency.' In the main stream media 1 plus 1 does not equal 2, it usually equals 3. An obvious question might be - how many American troops were killed in Iraq not because of weapons supplied by Iran, but by weapons 'mismanaged' or 'misplaced' by the US itself.
This story appears in The Guardian Unlimited, a British newspaper which during the run up to shock and awe actually ran articles that criticized the invasion. It was one of the very few larger English language newspapers that did so.
Fatigue cripples US army in Iraq
"Hanna and his men are not alone in being tired most of the time. A whole army is exhausted and worn out. You see the young soldiers washed up like driftwood at Baghdad's international airport, waiting to go on leave or returning to their units, sleeping on their body armour on floors and in the dust."
....'We should just be allowed to tell the media what is happening here. Let them know that people are worn out. So that their families know back home. But it's like we've become no more than numbers now.'
...'We're plodding through this,' he says after another patrol and another ambush in the city centre. 'I don't know how much more plodding we've got left in us.'
As I have mentioned before, soldiers are taking the brunt of the occupation in spades. What will the cost and toll to this generation be - broken marriages, broken bodies, broken minds, broken spirits.
As of Saturday August 11, the death toll for American soldiers in Iraq grows and now stands at 3,689.
addendum: A huge story is coming through about how the Italian mafia was supplying weapons to Iraq - Italy probe unearths huge Iraq arms deal
"The purchase would merely have been the most spectacular example of how Iraq has become a magnet for arms traffickers and a place of vanishing weapons stockpiles and uncontrolled gun markets since the 2003 U.S. invasion and the onset of civil war."
More evidence of how the insurgency is acquiring weapons. This all flies in the face of the official blame it on Iran theme. This will not deter Bush one iota from telling the American public his own special version of 'reality.'
image: contemporary Iraq art
3 comments:
Here's what the average "merican would say. Don't bother me with this kind of story I'm plodding through my 3 jobs trying to make it in the BV$H boom. I'm too busy chasing cheap deals at Walmsrt to be bothered. You see were doing our bit for the occupation or is that the War or is that the War on terror to be bothered with what the soldiers in Baghdad are doing. In other words there is an almost total disconnect between them and the rest of us. That's why no anti-war demos or even a peep from us. 'Merica is an Empire now and were to busy being busy so stop bothering us.
"...were to busy being busy so stop bothering us."
Yes, there was a time when a household could survive on one income. American financial planners realized that had to go and more money was to be made by adjusting prices so that two and three incomes would be necessary.
People are so stressed and involved in surviving and unfortunately acquiring what is beyond their means which produces more stress and on and on in a destructive cycle. Its hard to get people to look outside of that.
It is obscene that as the war was beginning, a person could pop on the TV and watch endless reruns of Andy of Mayberry, and be insulated and oblivious. That is the nature of America.
People who are desperate to just pay their ever mounting bills , who are mired in debt trying to keep up with the Joneses have no time for politics or compassion or anything. BV$H and his ilk know this and the more desperate we become the more powerful and secure they feel they are. The Corp. Aristocracy hates the middle class.
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