Surge this
Posted by Muffuletta
I thought it was bad back in the 1980s when the Reagan Republicans sold weapons to the enemy. Now the Bush Republicans have given innovative warcraft another twist by bribing the enemy into not attacking.
The so-called Surge of 2007 was billed as an increase in troops in Iraq designed to reduce the out-of-control violence. But the biggest part of the plan involves bribing Sunni Muslim insurgents into not attacking. Approximately 70,000 of them are being paid $10 per day to hang around, armed, keeping the peace.
So in addition to the bizarrely ginormous cost of the war, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of people killed, now we’re spending over a quarter billion more per year to create another militia that, no doubt, will eventually turn around and bite us, just like militias (excuse me - freedom fighters) we’ve created elsewhere.
Tags: George W. Bush, Iraq, Republicans, Sunni, the surge, violence, war
January 21st, 2008 at 3:04 am
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