The Iraq Tragedy

The attack into Iraq was swift and well done, but no plans were made for after sadistic Saddam was removed from power.

Without equipment, supplies and people landing to assist in helping the Iraqis immediately in starting the rebuilding of their country the Iraqis were instead left to sit around stewing in their misery which allowed the anti-America forces to gain unrestricted access throughout the country. If there had been any intelligent planning on what to do after wresting control from Saddam’s forces then the people would have acted against those who wanted to come in and cause problems in their country instead of turning a blind eye to them.

President Bush and the UN argued over who would create the Iraqi government while they totally ignored the plight of the people. That is not what liberators act like, or even what a smart conqueror would do. How could they have not realized that they must address the plight of the Iraqis if they wanted to stabilize the country? The first few days gave proof that the Iraqis first welcomed the US troops, but that advantage was lost when the US offered up nothing to improve their lives.

The same lack of insight in understanding, or maybe simply a lack of caring about, the plight of the people is causing the failure of the US today as well. How can anyone honestly think that exporting the good paying jobs of the country’s people, without replacing them with equally valuable local employment, will somehow help the country? And allowing businesses to do anything they please, like the financial institutions abusing mortgage lending practices that promote the failure of those mortgages, is further proof of incompetence in governing.

President Bush’s government is throwing money around like a madman and enacting policies that destroy the economic stability of the country’s masses, yet all his “experts” fail to see the coming fall. The US needs a government that realizes that the people, the masses not the few extremely wealthy, are the country. If the masses fail financially then the country fails too.