The war has nothing to do with national defense, terrorism, or weapons of mass destruction. The war has everything to do with trillions of dollars in oil supplies. The "U.S.-led ouster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein could open a bonanza for American oil companies long banished from Iraq" ("In Iraqi War Scenario, Oil Is Key Issue: U.S. Drillers Eye Huge Petroleum Pool," Washington Post, September 15, 2002).
If the war is not an immediate success, Miller and other moderates skate on thin ice by supporting a Republican president with questionable legitimacy from the 2000 election abusing his power to launch America’s first-ever attack against a sovereign nation.
This time, the expected urban warfare may result in tremendously high U.S. casualties. The result may be an American Stalingrad – overconfident U.S. troops on a long supply line in an enemy city losing badly. Miller may face strong opposition from voters when body bags come home to Georgia’s Fort Stewart, Fort Gordon, and Fort Benning via Dover Air Force Base in Maryland.
America should worry when the fix is in and death seems poised to win. The stomachs of Gulf War veterans churn recalling the senseless over-kill and carnage along "Highway of Death" in 1991. This was the infamous roadway from Kuwait to Iraq where thousands of retreating, defeated Iraqi soldiers were killed, shot like helpless fish in a barrel by U.S. attack helicopters, planes, and tanks.
If the war is not an immediate success, Miller and other moderates skate on thin ice by supporting a Republican president with questionable legitimacy from the 2000 election abusing his power to launch America’s first-ever attack against a sovereign nation.
This time, the expected urban warfare may result in tremendously high U.S. casualties. The result may be an American Stalingrad – overconfident U.S. troops on a long supply line in an enemy city losing badly. Miller may face strong opposition from voters when body bags come home to Georgia’s Fort Stewart, Fort Gordon, and Fort Benning via Dover Air Force Base in Maryland.
America should worry when the fix is in and death seems poised to win. The stomachs of Gulf War veterans churn recalling the senseless over-kill and carnage along "Highway of Death" in 1991. This was the infamous roadway from Kuwait to Iraq where thousands of retreating, defeated Iraqi soldiers were killed, shot like helpless fish in a barrel by U.S. attack helicopters, planes, and tanks.