Stuck in Iraq

Well, the sane portion of our population started saying, over a year ago, that this would happen if we invaded Iraq and tried to institute our laws and politics.

US helicopters fire on Sadr supporters in Baghdad - April 5, 2004 - 11:44PM US Apache helicopters sprayed fire on the private army of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during fierce battles today in the western Baghdad district of Al-Showla, witnesses and an AFP correspondent said. "Two Apaches opened fire on armed members of the Mehdi Army," said Showla resident Abbas Amid. The fighting erupted when five trucks of US soldiers and the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC) tried to enter the district and were attacked by Sadr supporters, Amid said. Coming under fire, the ICDC, a paramilitary force trained by the Americans, turned on the US soldiers and started to shoot at them, according to Amid. The soldiers fled their vehicles and headed for cover and then began to battle both the Mehdi Army and the ICDC members, he said. Their vehicles were set ablaze. Heavy gunfire rattled the district and columns of black smoke billowed into the sky. Burning tyres and tree trunks were used to barricade the neighbourhood, where young men toting clubs and carrying light weapons patrolled the streets. But 16 US Humvees all-terrain vehicles, backed by two tanks, rolled into Showla, the AFP correspondent said. Tension was also running high in the Shi'ite-controlled Sadr City slum in northern Baghdad, a day after pitched battles between Sadr partisans and the US military left 22 Iraqis dead and 85 others wounded, and killed seven US troops....

Phase II of Operation Iraqi "Freedom" has officially begun. There is no turning back, there is no way out. We are conclusively stuck in Iraq, murdering countless Iraqi citizens and sacrificing our own teenagers and young adults in order to protect the business interests of the Republican Party, and to also now exact revenge for the killing of highly-paid, intimidating and portentious private militia hired by those same business interests.

When are the parents of our hapless American reservists going to come to their senses and say enough is enough? I thank the ruler of the universe (if there is one) that my family is living on the opposite side of the planet, away the immediate target of the innocent Iraqi population,which is becoming more enraged and revenge-filled with each murder by an American on their soil.

Please, Mr. Bush, I will forgive you for the horrific acts that you've executed against all of us decent Americans over the past 3+ years if you stop this madness. I beg you to pack up the humvees and get the American soldiers out of Iraq now. Today. I'm sure the parents of our G.I.'s would thank you profusely.