By Richard E Walrath

Everybody in Iraq knows who the enemy is–everybody except United  States soldiers.  The enemy changes every day. 

My guess is that there is a disaster in the making in Iraq unless you consider what is there now a disaster.  Who does Al Qaeda fight in Iraq if the United States pulls out and concentrates on Afghanistan?

The thing is the United States was getting more oil from Iraq before Bush invaded it than the United States is getting now. 

Iraq, as far as anything the United States can do to make it better, is a lost cause.  The United States can make it worse, but I don’t think Iraq is going to get any better by our being there. 

Now the question becomes, if the United States withdraws its troops from Iraq, will Al Qaeda follow them to Afghanistan?  If they do, the United States will have them right where they want them. 

But, then, that will bring up another question–why did the United States go to Iraq to fight Al Qaeda when Al Qaeda was the reason for going to Afghanistan in the first place?

The SCHIP bill didn’t get enough votes 10/18/2007 to override the Bush veto.  But it’s costing as much to fund the war in Iraq for a month as it would to insure ten million children for more than a year. 

Thanks to the Bush tax-cuts for the rich and big business, there’s no money to fund the war in Iraq–guess he must figure that you have to cut somewhere.

There is a lot more support for the war in Afghanistan, not only in the United States but in the rest of the world.  That doesn’t solve the problem created by the Bush invasion of Iraq. 

I think we’re on our way out of there and on the way to Afghanistan big time.  That would go over with the right-wingers much better than just pulling out of Iraq. 

Declare victory and leave.

Counting the independent contractors, there are about 300,000 they can start shipping to Afghanistan.  There’s still a chance that other countries would provide some help there. 

They may not continue to do so unless the United States puts some troops in there.  Iraq is a bungled Bush boondoggle.  It’s never going to get any better as long as the United States is there.