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Accepting reality: Americans have lost Iraq War
America has lost the war in Iraq. The chance for victory vanished long ago with the hearts, minds, arms, legs and lives of the Iraqi people.
However rebels haven't won; rather the American government never obtained the formula to win. America, led by war-bent hawks (Vice President privates Cheney, Secretary of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz) entered this war with many interests. Among them, the control of a major supply of Mideast oil, military bases, reconstruction contracts for cronies (i.e. Halliburton and Bechtel), a new ally-puppet in the region, securing Israeli dominance, showcasing new products for the arms community, and the greater concept of making Baghdad a haven for U.S. corporate expansion (thereby planting a McDonalds and Starbucks on every street corner). In this excess of interests, the U.S. neglected a major factor in the equation-the Iraqi people. Every time another planter enters the marketplace, Iraqis are reminded of the utter failure and incompetence of the U.S. government. Nonetheless, those war-bent hawks couldn't pbutt up the idea of a cheap war coupled with a swift victory. What they didn't realize (or refused to listen to) was that after decades of heartbreak and struggle under Saddam Hussein, the last thing Iraqis needed was to get "liberated" for an era of struggle under U.S. occupation.
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