Iraq conflict passes WWII (1348 Days)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/iraq-conflict-passes-wwii/2006/11/24/1164341399638.html

THEY were America's days of infamy, 60 years apart - Pearl Harbour and September 11. The first led the US into World War II, a conflict it endured for 1348 days; the second was followed by a war that from tomorrow will have lasted even longer.

America's involvement in Iraq will reach that milestone at a time when the clamour for withdrawal has never been louder, and the possibility of achieving it has never seemed so difficult. The decisive end of World War II in 1945 delivers no lessons that could be applied to a very different war in a very different era.

If anything, things seem to be getting worse, the options less appealing. Baghdad is reeling from the deadliest assault on Iraqi civilians since the start of the US invasion in March 2003. At least 200 people died and more than 250 were injured after six car bombs, mortar attacks and missiles battered the Shiite Muslim slum of Sadr City.

Plumes of black smoke and anguished screams rose above a chaotic landscape of flames and charred cars, witnesses said.

Note this is Australian newspaper. Not one damn note of this have I seen yet tonight surfing US News sites.

[Erika]

1. Sunnis torched alive after coming out of worship

How many more days do the bushbots wish us to remain in Iraq? Until genocide is completed?

[PSPS]

2. And it will continue unless/until congress puts a stop to it

This is a festering sore -- a tumor that must be excised before it can't be stopped. These damn "freshman" congressmen better step up to the plate and simply zero out the funding of this ongoing crime as their very first order of business.

[Erika]

3. I think a better tact might be to force the GOP

to justify their past spending and ask them why it should continue.

[kellenburger]

4. good point to bring up.

How much has this "war" co$t ?

[UpInArms]

5. here's a story in Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/feeds/ap/2006/11/25/ap3202766.html

excerpt:

"Coalition forces strive to mitigate risks to civilians while in pursuit of terrorists. It is always a shame when terrorists hide among civilian women and children, putting them in harm's way," the U.S. military said.

In another area north of Baghdad, coalition forces attacked three vehicles carrying 12 insurgents, including one they were searching for because he allegedly was involved in the manufacture of car bombs, the coalition said. The soldiers opened fire on the cars when they ignored warning shots, and all the militants were killed, the military said.

No soldiers or civilians were wounded during that operation. The coalition declined to give its exact location.

On Friday, revenge-seeking Shiite militiamen seized six Sunnis as they left prayers, drenched them with kerosene and burned them alive, and Iraqi soldiers did nothing to stop the attack, police and witnesses said.

The fiery slayings in the mainly Sunni neighborhood of Hurriyah were a dramatic escalation of the brutality coursing through the Iraqi capital, coming a day after suspected Sunni insurgents killed 215 people in Baghdad's main Shiite district with a combination of bombs and mortars.

The attacks culminated Baghdad's deadliest week of sectarian fighting since the war began more than three years ago.

...more...

[SpiralHawk]

6. And to think that an AWOL preppy cheerleader brought this on single handedly

Quite an accomplishment, to have killed and maimed so many people based on a pack of WMD lies, and to have fabulously enriched your corrupt oil & munitions cronies in the bargain. You are quite a "leader" commander AWOL

[dbt]

7. Four years which should live in Infamy!

But probably won't, thanks to the utter complicity of the Murkin Whore Media. "Navy SEALs rock!" gushed Ms Perkyteeth Wetpants--and the echo answered, "Popular Wartime President!"

:argh:
dbt
Remember New Orleans

[sofa king]

8. My not-so-recent rant.

Can be found here:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa%20king/50

Today ((June 30, 2006)) is the 1,198th day of the Iraq War, or three years, three months, and ten days, and we're being told it will take much longer.

If this were the 1,198th day of America's formal involvement in World War Two, today's date would be about March 19th, 1945.

By the 1,198th day of America's part in World War II, virtually all of Western Europe had been wrested from German occupation. El Alamein, Midway, Stalingrad, Normandy, the Destruction of Army Group Centre, the Battle of the Bulge, and most of the other epic battles besides Okinawa were in the history books. France was fielding an entire army of its own again. George S. Patton was pissing into the Rhine, and the U.S. Ninth Army was crossing it at Remagen into Germany itself.

On March 19th, 1945, Germany was about five weeks away from surrendering unconditionally. The Japanese empire in the Pacific had been completely retaken or neutralized and one of its own provinces, Iwo Jima, was a week away from finally falling to U.S. Marines. The atomic bomb was only four months away from completion, and the entire war was less than six months away from ending.

That was a fucking war. This is a corporate enterprise, and it will continue until it becomes unprofitable.