A thought wrenching statistic from this article:

According to the September 1 Manufacturing & Technology News, the Government
Accounting Office has reported that over the course of the cakewalk war, the
US 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 US
troops have fired 90,000 rounds at each insurgent.

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The Cakewalk War

By Paul Craig Roberts

09/20/05 "ICH" -- -- The "cakewalk war" is now two and one-half years old.
US casualties (dead and wounded) number 20,000. As 20,000 is the number of
Iraqi insurgents according to US military commanders, each insurgent is
responsible for one US casualty.

US troops in Iraq number about 150,000. Obviously, US troops have not
inflicted 150,000 casualties on the Iraqi insurgents. US 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" US invasion that is spreading civilian deaths all over
Mesopotamia in the name of democracy.

What could the US have possibly done to give America a worse name than to
invade Iraq and murder its citizens?

According to the September 1 Manufacturing & Technology News, the Government
Accounting Office has reported that over the course of the cakewalk war, the
US 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 US
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 US military studiously avoided body counts. If
2,000 insurgents have been killed, each death required 900,000 rounds of
ammunition.

The combination of US government owned ammo plants and those of US
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 US
industry cannot produce enough ammunition to defeat a 20,000 man insurgency.

US military analysts are beginning to wonder if the US has been defeated by
the insurgency. Increasingly, Bush administration spokesmen sound like
"Baghdad Bob." On September 19 the Washington Post reported that US military
spinmeister Major General Rich 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.

Anthony Cordesman, a military expert at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies in Washington DC, says: "We can't secure the airport
road, can't stop the incoming (mortar rounds) into the Green Zone, can't
stop the killings and kidnappings." The insurgency controls most of Baghdad
and the Sunni provinces.

With its judgement lost to frustration, the US military has 40,000 Iraqis in
detention - twice the number of estimated insurgents. Who are these
detainees? According to the Washington Post, "Many of the men detained in
Tall Afar last week were rounded up on the advice of local teenagers who had
stepped forward as informants, at times for what American soldiers said they
suspected amounted to no more than settling local scores."

Obviously, the US, not knowing who or where the insurgents are, is just
striking blindly, creating a larger insurgency.

The Iraq government, despite being backed by the US military, is unable to
control movements across the Iraqi - Syrian border. So the Bush
administration has passed the buck to Syria. Puny Syria is declared guilty
of not doing what the US military cannot do.

Adam Ereli, the demented US State Department spokesperson, denounced the
Syrian government for "permitting" insurgents to cross the border. The US
government cannot prevent a steady stream of one million Mexicans from
illegally crossing its border each year, but Syria is supposed to be able to
stop a couple hundred foreign fighters from sneaking across its border.

Ereli misrepresents Syria's inability to be "an unwillingness" which
indicates that Syria is consorting with terrorists, not only in Iraq, but
also in Lebanon and Palestine. Does this sound like Syria being set up for
invasion?

According to news reports, at Ted Forstmann's annual meeting of movers and
shakers last weekend, 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.

At the Human Rights Conference on September 9, the former Prime Minister of
Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, described Americans as "people with blood-soaked
hands."

"Who are the terrorists," asked Mahathir, the Iraqis or the Americans?

The entire world is asking this question.

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"What good fortune for those in power that people do not think!"

- Adolf Hitler, as quoted by Joachim Fest.

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"During my senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret
I can't say anything more."

" President George W. Bush, in his autobiography, A Charge to Keep."


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