The Iraq War: One Of The Greatest Vanishing Acts Of Our Time

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

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The Iraq War is one of the greatest vanishing acts of our time, as the major U.S. News Media has largely stopped covering it.

No more "Operation Iraqi Freedom," no more "bench marks," and little of anything else so the leading presidential and congressional candidates don't have to talk about it. And the lessor candidates who speak of Iraq are often kept out of "debates" and other sizeable public forums.

Yet people in Iraq are being killed, kidnapped, wounded or orphaned and the U.S. has hundreds of thousands of troops and mercenaries there. The U.S. is mortgaging its future borrowing billions of dollars every month to continue the fighting and its military occupation of Iraq.

The leading candidates with their giant campaign contributors have no answers, and with the support of huge corporate media are trying to make Iraq invisible to the public. This lets the War and its incineration of human life, including the lives of innocent little children continue indefinitely, President Bush aside.

Trying to hide this War, and the one in Afghanistan is like trying to hide an 800 pound gorilla in a china shop. He'll destroy everything in the shop, and even if his owner is trying to look the other way, he'll still have to pay for the damage.

As Americans, that owner is you and me. Every loving and compassionate person must find a way to publicly protest, to speak-up for the victims of Wars perpetrated by the U.S., for if we remain as silent as our media and our leading political candidates, we mortgage not only our nation's future, we mortgage our souls.

[Carolina]

1. K & R

Funny how this ghastly, immoral, illegal invasion and occupation which has caused so much death and destruction, so much waste of capital and goodwill has disappeared off the radar screen enabling HRC and repukes like McCain who voted for this mess to be 'winners.'

Spare us all.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

8. Thanks for the K & R...You make very good points, too. nt

[still_one]

2. You noticed that too, and it doesn't see that even the leading candidates

want to talk about it on the Democratic side

What kind of crap is that?

Give me britney or lindsey, Americans are paying and will continue to pay for their ignorance

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4. Seems like the war(s) should be the #1 issue for all the candidates...

It sure as hell is my #1 issue.

peace

[still_one]

5. you and I are on the same page /nt

[kitty44]

15. Amen to that. n/t

[gateley]

16. It was Biden's number one issue - he referred to it as a "boulder in the road".

Just sayin'.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. I am languishing in my "safer" feeling since gw has launched his

war of choice, war of aggression. I hope they have plenty room at the Hague.

[madokie]

6. except for the poor souls who are caught up in dick and w's weave

to them its all too real. Oh and to what you say, its right on the money on all counts. It sucks being where we are right now, a lot of us were here many years before and I know I did anyway think all that was behind me and we'd never have to do it again but no hell no here we are again having to fight the same fucking fights we won way back then, civil rights, stopping a war, a womans right to choose and on and on, the list is long.

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7. Re: "here we are again having to fight the same fucking fights we won way back then"

It really does boggle a sane mind.

[Loge23]

9. 151,000 & counting

MSNBC.com has an update of yet another Iraqi citizen death count.
They claim 151,000 with methodology that strongly suggests that this number is the minimum estimate.
Either way, factor in another 5,000 military deaths from the so-called coalition, plus the "terra-ists" and you have the idiot son as a finalist on any respectable all-time mass murderer list. (btw, why is this guy not in prison somewhere??)
Now it's all the candidates all the time - and they're not talking Iraq either.

[hoozyorsugadaddy]

10. Why rub it in?

Why rub it in? We're losing Iraq and we may have a better time of beating Iran. It's like football. You don't worry about your past losses, just hope for better in the future.

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11. It's NOT just like football. Children are dying every day!

Get it through your head. Wars cannot be "won" anymore.

everybody loses.

edited to add: Our children (soldiers) as well as Iraqi children.

[Generator]

12. Honeypie, doncha know the surge worked

Charlie Gibson of that vaulted ABC NEWS told me so. So I know it's true.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

13. "for if we remain as silent as our media and our leading political candidates,"..

.."we mortgage not only our nation's future, we mortgage our souls."

[Djinn]

14. of course

chances are the next US Prez will be a Dem.

No Democrat on the face of the earth is going to allow the formation of a TRULY Iraqi govt in Iraq simply because doing so would see the bullshit Bremmer contracts torn up and Iraqi oil nationalised once more (an OVERWHELMING majority of Iraqi's want this)and most likely a switch to trading in Euro's not USD which would be disastrous for the US economy.

Iraq needs to be backburnered because we can't have people asking embarrasing questions of the next admin.

If Iraq is at the forefront of the news then people might ask why nothing changed after they turfed the Republican Prez. They might start questioning what the differences between two pro business capitalist parties actually is.

They might start wondering if ANY politician has their interests at heart or only those of corporate boardrooms.

No media conglomerate wants THAT kind of questioning.

[Echo In Light]

17. Did you wonder why the 'election cycle' began soooo early?