[SJackson]

Continued........

As of this writing, the war has taken on a Twilight Zone quality. As members of the U.S. army smoke cigars in one of Saddam's largest palaces, and American C-130s land at the renamed Baghdad International Airport, the Iraqi minister of information insists that rumors of an American presence in the city are false. Civilians catch busses and make purchases at markets, and the nights are punctuated by blasts from the sky that make sleep next to impossible.

No one knows if Saddam is alive or dead, but the news of Chemical Ali's demise warms the heart. A cousin of Saddam's, Ali was the enforcer who gassed thousands of Iraqi Kurds in northern Iraq and brutally suppressed the uprising in Basra following the Gulf War in 1991. (This war, for what it's worth, will probably become known as the Iraq War, not the Second Gulf War.)

There are no shades of gray in this war. At its conclusion, which God willing will come soon, we will celebrate the victory of light over darkness. War is a nasty, uncivilized, brutal business. But with that caveat, it is no exaggeration to boast that U.S. and British forces are now fighting the most humanitarian war in history.

[TopQuark]

routinely tucking extra cases of bottled water into their Humvees to distribute to thirsty Iraqi civilians. This is against regulations,

G-d bless our military: they are the best our country has to offer. Their degrees are not as advanced as those of Ivy League professors, and their taste in classical music may not be as refined as that of the NPR snobs. But their heart is where American has always been, despite the 50-year onslaught of the Left. And it is the heart that alsways differentiated us from the Europeans.

G-d bless our boys and girls out there, keep them, and bring them back alive and well.

[Theophilus]

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

[Timesink]

One thing I've noticed is that practically nobody - AT ALL - is reporting the fact that 98% of this "water & famine" problem existed before the war started. By not stating this explicitly, everyone's reporting on it is making the public falsely infer it's a direct result of coalition bombing.

[Screaming_Gerbil]

...it is no exaggeration to boast that U.S. and British forces are now fighting the most humanitarian war in history.

Bump

[TontoKowalski]

This is against regulations, as rations for soldiers are meant to be kept separate from relief to the civilian population.

The title of the article suggests sinister actions. In reality, officers are not as stupid as one might think. There are instances in which officers don't feel the need to know everything that's going on. We call it "selective blindness."

It's part of the enduring partnership between the officer corps and the senior enlisted ranks... soemtimes the senior enlisted do the right thing, even though it's not strictly by the book, and the officers attention is elsewhere diverted while this occurs, precluding correction.

An odd marriage, but it's worked quite well for a couple of centuries now.

[Uncle Jaque]

Re. the claim that 60,000 Iraqi children die annually under the tyranny of Saddamn;

How many unborn Americans are butchered under the rule of "Roe v. Wade" each year, pray tell?

I don't suppose anyone will or could do this, but I would be curious as to the percentage of of "Pro-Life" vs. "Pro-choice" positions between the "Support Our Troops" Rally participants and those of the "No blood for oil" Anti-Bush crowd.

Am I the only xzenophobic Neocon in here who suspects that there just might be a connection someplace?

"It's for the Children", of course.
Sure...
Add 'em up!

It appears to at least this one simple Yankee that the practice of systematic, industrialized Infanticide seems to settle, in the main, on one side of the bloody old bathtub, here... both at home and abroad.

In a letter now faded and brittle with age, written home from the front of another war of Liberation back in 1864, an Ancestor opined that the curse of that particular war (which ultimately claimed the lives of over 660,000 Americans) was the direct consequence of, and God's righteous judgement for, the sins of America, both North and South.
He furthur opined that those sins had grown to the point where they could "...not be purged from this Country, but by blood."

And I think before we get terribly myopic in regards to the atrocities of Saddamn Hussaien, we might do well to engage in some introspective soul-searching of our own. In regards to judgement, perhaps America has gotten off, by His Grace, relatively easy.

So far, that is.

Repentance may well be in order within our own national shores and hearts; there is a desperate want for Spiritual Liberation right here at home, every bit as much, I suspect, as there is need for political and tactical Liberation in tyrannical gulags like Iraq.

Might Perchance a Spiritual liberation both at home as well as over there make "Liberation" truly a lasting and complete blessing?

I can't help but wonder if honest conviction, confession, repentance, reconciliation and mutual liberation might be tasks to which our mutual Creator calls us to arise...

Together.

Shalom;
Amen.

[CholeraJoe]

Improvise, Adapt, Overcome.

[packrat01]

(This war, for what it's worth, will probably become known as the Iraq War, not the Second Gulf War.)

Why not Gulf War Part Deux?

Part one, was before the 12 year half-time show...