Winks Blog

Operation "Spear"

Good evening,

In the last two days, aproximately 60 people have been killed in suicide attacks in Iraq.

In the meantime the US launched what is called "Operation Spear", bombarding a small dusty town boardering Syria. The US has captured thus far 100 people they label as insurgents. The US also launched airstrikes "precision guided munitions" to hit buildings "occupied by insurgents". Anybody shooting from a building is considered an "insurgent", and that building is immediately a target for US airstrike. I don't suppose that people in those buildings might have felt under attack and needed to try to defend or protect themselves. It looks like in Iraq, if you don't just lay on the ground when the US tromps into your town, roping up people,.. you too are considered an insurgent. Don't even try to defend yourself because you are a target. Well, who knows who is what, and how the US just seems to know, is beyond comprehension.

Now, as far as collateral damage goes, just yesterday the US admitted they killed a 10 year old Iraqi boy who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. There is no telling who or how many people got killed in the airstrikes today, but I suppose we may find out a number eventually. Of course all those killed in the buildings the US will claim to be insurgent deaths. We can feel real good about that can't we?

On a slightly brighter note, it seems that people on the hill are beginning to realize that the US presence in Iraq is actually stirring up the insurgency rather than stiefling it (NO DUH.. oh people on the hill are so dam smart huh?)... Like CLUE PHONE.. and are beginning to put pressure on Bush to come up with some sort of exit time line. Even some republican "War" supporters are getting a bit sick of all of this. Anyway... if these people on the hill think that Mr. Entrenched in his own toxic swill, Bush, will show any sort of flexibility or come up with a time line, they may as well give it up. Mr. Bush, or shall I say Mr. Black and White Bush, does things only one way, and that is HIS way. The way of his own resolve. Let us not forget people, that Mr. Bush had to go cold turkey to finally give up alcohol and drugs. For him, there is no inbetween, it is black or it is white. You are either with us or you are against us, and god help you if you are labeled as being in the "Axis of evil". That's it for now. More news at 11 I suppose.

In the meantime, have a lovely evening.

posted by Wink @ 7:00 PM