Come and see our over flowing morgues... Come and see the rubble of your surgical air-strikes"

Mike Whitney

....No one wants to live under occupation and all of the surveys conducted since the invasion in 2003 indicate that more than 90% of the Iraqi people want to see the United States withdrawal. Given these results, it is obvious why the resistance has mushroomed. There will always be a growing pool of young nationalists eager to join the fray. The US cannot prevail in Iraq nor can they impose a "political solution", which is the other great myth currently in vogue. The only acceptable political solution to occupation is withdrawal - not puppet regimes, not "oil laws" not "benchmarks". Withdrawal. PeriodBut Bush will not withdrawal and apparently no one can force him to do so. So, the killing will continue unabated behind the media's iron curtain while the overall situation on the ground continues to deteriorate. Eventually, after years of ethnic cleansing, sectarian fighting and stepped-up military operations, the position of the US will become untenable and the troops will come home. But the cost in human terms will be enormous. Already one million Iraqis have been killed in the war and four million others have become refugees. Credit the US media for concealing the real savagery of foreign occupation and its effects on Iraqi society. The country is in ruins. There are only three problems in Iraq; occupation, occupation and occupation....

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