Post by Moses on Jan 3, 2006 18:21:38 GMT -5
Iran-Editorial-Iraq
An Iranian daily on Tuesday predicted that Washington would cut the number of its troops in Iraq this year in order to reduce the human and financial cost of its unwanted military presence and return the Republicans to the White House in 2008.
Commenting on the mounting hardships and risks for the American troops in Iraq, the English-language 'Iran Daily' wrote, "The Arab country is as much destabilized and directionless, ... today as it was when king George invaded in March 2003."
Referring to Iraq as a "living memory of America's failures and follies under the disastrous neocons in the year we just left behind," the editorial argued that there is no indication that "2006 will be any better."
Stressing that the US public was openly losing patience with the Bush regime and its insistence on putting almost 150,000 Americans (mostly from poor families) in harm's way, the editorial said that even the opposition Democrats, including influential ones who initially backed the illegal invasion, "are showing renewed signs of impatience [oops--freudian reading slip-- I read "impotence"] and fear over the body bags and want the boys home.
"Earlier doubts about the 'exaggeration of the Iraq quagmire' have now transformed into certainty," said the article.
"Irrespective of what Bush and his minions may claim in front of TV cameras, today Iraq has visibly become a hotbed for Muslim insurgents from a variety of radical schools while defenseless Iraqis suffer and are humiliated on a daily basis," it noted.
It stressed that Bush's irresponsible militaristic policies would and had given rise to dangerous radicalism in the strategic region and beyond, and also enlarged the list of America's sworn enemies." The daily concluded by recalling the war skeptics who said the present approach of the US president including his irritating arrogance and his divorce from realities in the volatile region, "will not make the world a safer place."