Radio Free Kirkopolis

Well it’s nice to know things in Iraq are going back to normal.

Violence despite curfewThe continued tensions prompted the government to extend until Monday morning a ban on all vehicle traffic in Baghdad, which has been under a virtually complete lockdown since Thursday night. All travel between provinces also was barred, but the curfew was lifted in areas outside Baghdad and pedestrians will be allowed to move in Baghdad on Sunday.

Well, at least the people of Iraq are free from dictatorship and murder.

The Baghdad curfew was lifted for two hours at 6 p.m. Saturday, and the streets briefly filled with people rushing to buy bread and other supplies.But the security clampdown did not prevent fresh attacks in which at least 45 people died, many of them Shiites or members of the Shiite-controlled police forces, raising fears that Sunnis are starting to strike back after the wave of retaliatory attacks against Sunnis after the bombing of the Shiite shrine.

You know how when you spend a lot of money on a good or service, you kind of want to see some results of that? Take my Dad for instance, he pays for this housekeeper to come every week or so, and she does a pretty good job, but the pictures in his house are always crooked. She never straightens them. This would drive me up the wall. If I’m paying you to make my house look nice, then make my house look nice. Same thing when I go out to dinner, I’m all for tipping but you better make damn sure my drink never runs out. I’m spending money and I expect results.
So, lets say you’re spending $251 BILLION (per year mind you) dollars on something. Now that’s billion with a ‘b’ – that’s the worth of 251 Oprahs. Wouldn’t you want to see some results?
Nothing’s changed in Iraq. What are we spending the money on? Would things be any worse if we just packed up and left? Probably not.
Don’t give me that ‘the people in Iraq need us’ crap either. If we were that concerned about them we wouldn’t have left them hung out to dry 12 years ago. Bush (Sr.) told the people of Iraq to rise up against Saddam; they thought they’d have his support. They didn’t and they were slaughtered.
So, the bottom line is that Iraq is pretty much in a civil war, we are making no progress, and we’re spending a crap-load of money to do it. You know if the Democrats ran some sort of social program with these results the Republicans would be up in arms, the mentality- Everyone needs to learn to fend for themselves (unless you have a bunch of oil).