Perhaps a regime change is in order

[RC]

R.D. Olsen letter: Perhaps a regime change is in order

Published Friday, February 10, 2006
Among the many fantasies that shaped the Bush administration’s policy decisions in going to war in Iraq was the confident assertion that Iraqi oil would pay for the whole thing. These are the same oil barons and Bush loyalists that visualized the American invaders’ path strewn with roses. So far, Bush and his people have not had it right on any aspect of this war.

But no blunder in the mind-numbing litany of Bush administration failures has been more costly than its failure to secure the oil fields and oil production infrastructure.

At first, this was to be done by a private security firm. When that failed the military was given the job of protecting the refineries and over 4,000 miles of pipelines. But the American military, superb professional troops that they are, never had enough boots on the ground to do all that was expected of it. Now, amid falling enlistment rates and growing evidence that our troops are stretched to the breaking point, it is not likely to.

So, after three years of bloody struggle, billions of dollars in cost, 2,238 Americans killed and 15,000 wounded, the oil is still not flowing. Refineries blown up, pipelines repeatedly cut and Iraqis waiting in long lines for a few gallons of gasoline. One shudders at what these incompetent bunglers might try next; Iran maybe? God help us. We are the ones who need a regime change.

R.D. Olsen

Fargo

http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=117107§ion=Opinion

The word is getting out. There is hope that the light in the tunnel is not the coming train wreak.

[liberal N proud]

1. Yes America does need a regime change

and we can't wait 3 more years.

[acmejack]

2. Truer words were never spoken

Unfortunately, the die has been cast & Amerika is our Children's lot. None, here or elsewhere, have the stomach the stomach to do what must be done to spare them that fate.

[Ecumenist]

3. It 's WAY past time for a change

I am a woman, an ethnically mixed black woman and I grew understanding that things only stay bad IF you accept them and do nothing to change them. It won't be easy, my God, it's never easy BUT it's never impossible. If people stood back and always said AND believed that the die is cast, especially when you have to deal with a powerful and established power stucture. IT can and MUST be done and never given up on. OH, there'll be time when you feel like we're pushing a car uphill with a rope but if you refuse to give up and make sure that you're willing to work in spite of ridicule and threats,( and in some cases, attacks), we can find ourselves with something resembling America the beautiful after this storm of idiocy, corruption and greed. Don't give up Acme, that's what this bunch is counting on.