endless quagmire

[Michael Eisenstadt]

"At least 54 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq since that speech on May 1, 
when Bush declared the end of "major combat operations." More than a 
dozen of the fatalities were by hostile fire. Last week, three U.S. 
troops were killed in four days." - Washington Post, today

And when the Iraqi resistance drops a mortar round into
where US troops are sleeping and the toll is over 20? This
may wake up the country. It is hard to imagine that the
Iraqi resistance (thousands of them) will ever cease. They
will only get better at resistance as time goes on. Bush's
great adventure may well turn into an endless quagmire with
a slow steady stream of bodybags being brought back stateside.

The Israelis kept troops in southern Lebanon for 16 years
before Barak withdrew them. I believe they lost around 1000
soldiers in their occupation.

Thanks to Bush and his loony-tunes advisors we have become
like the Israelis in Lebanon.

The disdain now felt towards the US in other countries is
just lagniappe.

Mike