State Of Emergency ?

I must say I was a bit stunned to read this headline today in the Dallas Morning News. It said, "State of Emergency Declared in Baghdad". I was under the impression that a state of emergency had existed there for the last 3 years or so. Over 2500 Americans and thousands of Iraqis have died, and now a state of emergency is declared? How ridiculous is that?

It looks like the war that Georgie and his henchmen tell us we're winning, has just taken a turn for the worst. Iraqi insurgents have placed strategic roadblocks in Baghdad, and are battling American and Iraqi soldiers with rifles and RPG's. The insurgency has just gotten bolder. Bit by bit, they're learning how to fight us.

The "state of emergency" being declared was to help regain control of the situation. It imposes a strict curfew, and anyone who breaks it can be shot without warning. We are obviously not turning any corners in Iraq, no matter what Dark Lord Cheney says.

It might be different if we had a chance of accomplishing anything in Iraq, but we don't. We cannot impose a government on another country and expect it to survive. And don't even try to say they had a free and fair election! How could it be a free election when all candidates had to be approved by an occupying power [us]. This government will fall the day we leave. Then the Iraqis will decide for themselves what kind of government they will have.

That is the truth of the situation, whether we leave now, or ten years from now. To delay is just to cause the deaths of more American soldiers. Haven't enough of them died already? Let's bring them home NOW and let the Iraqis determine their own future.