This piece from Paul Craig Roberts the John M Olin
(manufacturer of explosive propellants extraordinaire) Fellow and
former Reagan Treasury official discussing the administration gang that couldn't shoot
straight:
The "cakewalk war" is now two and one-half years old. U.S.
casualties (dead and wounded) number 20,000. As 20,000 is the number of
Iraqi insurgents according to U.S. military commanders, each insurgent
is responsible for one U.S. casualty.
U.S. troops in Iraq number about 150,000. Obviously, U.S. troops
have not inflicted 150,000 casualties on the Iraqi insurgents. U.S.
troops have perhaps inflicted 150,000 casualties on the Iraqi civilian
population, primarily women and children who are the "collateral
damage" of the "righteous" and "virtuous" U.S. invasion that is
spreading civilian deaths all over Mesopotamia in the name of democracy
What could the U.S. have possibly done to give America a worse name than to invade Iraq and murder its citizens?
According to the Sept. 1 Manufacturing & Technology News, the
Government Accounting Office has reported that over the course of the
cakewalk war, the U.S. military's use of small caliber ammunition has
risen to 1.8 billion rounds.Think about that number. If there are
20,000 insurgents, it means U.S. troops have fired 90,000 rounds at
each insurgent.
Very few have been hit. We don't know how many. To avoid the analogy
with Vietnam, until last week the U.S. military studiously avoided body
counts. If 2,000 insurgents have been killed, each death required
900,000 rounds of ammunition.
The combination of U.S. government-owned ammo plants and those of
U.S. commercial producers together cannot make bullets as fast as US
troops are firing them. The Bush administration has had to turn to
foreign producers such as Israel Military Industries. Think about that.
Hollowed-out U.S. industry cannot produce enough ammunition to defeat a
20,000-man insurgency.
U.S. military analysts are beginning to wonder if the U.S. has been
defeated by the insurgency. Increasingly, Bush administration spokesmen
sound like "Baghdad Bob." On Sept. 19, the Washington Post reported
that US military spinmeister Major General Rick Lynch declared "great
success" against the insurgency that had just inflicted the worst
casualties of the war, including a three-day mortar attack on the
"safe" Green Zone.
Obviously,
the US, not knowing who or where the insurgents are, is just striking
blindly, creating a larger insurgency.
According
to news reports, US Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, predicted
that US troops will soon enter into Syria. Simultaneously, the Bush
administration is desperately trying to orchestrate a case that
it can use to attack Iran.
Stalemated
in Iraq, the White House moron intends to attack two more countries.
