GI Special 4G19: Nation Breaking - July 19, 2006

Thomas F. Barton

A Soldiers’ Meticulous, Detailed Account Of A Complete Disaster:"We Were Fighting A War To Establish Permanent Bases In Iraq To Better Manipulate The Flow Of Middle East Oil"I began to wonder: if the highest-ranking officers in a battalion did not care to interact with the Iraqis, how were the generals in the Pentagon to know what was going on? How would the president know? I realized that they wouldn’t—and they didn’t care because training the Iraqis was of little real interest.That’s not to say that the men who died in Iraq died for nothing. They were doing their jobs. But the Bush administration disgraces their memories by stating that our only option is to prolong a losing policy. This administration refuses to learn from its mistakes, level with the soldiers fighting its war, and bring the sad American chapter called Iraq to a close.

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