The Bush administration would like Americans to believe that we are actually accomplishing something in Iraq, and victory there is now possible. But something as simple as a flag shows us that is just not true.
After months of wrangling, the puppet government that Bush installed in Iraq still can't even come up with a flag for the country. The best they could do was to redesign the old flag a bit and install it as a temporary flag until they could agree on a new flag. At least they thought they had.
The two flags are pictured above, with the new temporary flag on top and the old flag on the bottom. The Kurds were thrilled with the change. They had considered the old flag to be "Saddam's flag". But many Iraqi Arabs are not so happy.
They say that many Iraqis fought and died under the old flag, and it is disrespectful to them to replace it with something else. Fallujah (in Anbar province) is refusing to fly the new banner. The city is still displaying the old flag. Also, many Arabs in Baghdad are flying the old flag.
No wonder the puppet government is not accomplishing anything. The people only respect their decisions when they agree with them. After months of wrangling, they are unable to even get the people to agree on a flag. How on earth are they ever going to accomplish anything of substance?
Meanwhile, the victorious "surge" seems to have been a one-month wonder. Bush had bragged that the American death toll went down to only 24 dead soldiers in December. It is now climbing again. With three days left in January, the number of US soldiers killed has climbed to 36.
The only thing we are accomplishing in Iraq is to cause more Americans to be killed. It is time to bring our soldiers home and let the Iraqis determine their own fate. We cannot do it for them.
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