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Losing in Iraq

2005-05-19T00:56:26Z

The Bush Administration wanted a short conventional war with a glorious victory; they have a drawn-out guerrilla war and an approaching humiliating defeat.
Travis Anderson of Hooper, Colorado had a bad week. He was killed in Iraq.
We're not doing well in the Islamic world, and I don't mean only recently. In 1979 the Carter Administration managed to make a huge fire ball in the Iranian desert in a failed attempt to rescue American hostages, incinerating a number of Americans. In 1983 (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, USA, Stewart Nusbaumer

Neocons Drive The Nation Toward Ruin, Iraqi Guerrillas Kill Our Soldiers, Veterans Are Ignored, and Americans fall asleep

2005-01-31T21:08:39Z

By Stewart Nusbaumer For three decades, since the end of the Vietnam War, veterans of that bloody fiasco have said, “been there, done that,” implying Americans should listen to what they have to say about war.
We fought a war so we understand the horror of war — horror is not always easy to remember, especially, when in youth, videogames were one's greatest threat. We fought a war so we know war should be the last option, which seems to have slipped the minds of most Americans. We fought (…)

- contributions / Edito, Wars and conflicts, International, USA, Stewart Nusbaumer

Bush's Mercenary Army

2004-06-18T19:20:25Z

Stewart Nusbaumer
Until the first bomb landed on the center of Baghdad, I insisted, although my friends insisted I was nuts, we were not going into Iraq. Not my best predication.
What went wrong, with me? I underestimated George Bush's stupidity. My friends are better at stupidity than I am.
My firm belief that our military was not going into Iraq was based upon a certainty on my part that a U.S. occupation of Iraq would turn out to be an utter disaster, for both Iraqis and Americans. (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, USA, Stewart Nusbaumer