"But Iraq is already a killing field, and the U.S. Army doesn't seem to be able and/or willing to prevent it. Even if the U.S. military occupation is keeping a horrible situation from getting even worse (a debatable assumption) it's like putting a tourniquet on a torn femoral artery: The patient will still bleed to death as soon as the pressure is lifted. But nobody knows how to stitch up the artery.
"The hard truth then, is that American soldiers aren't dying for democracy or to stop the terrorists or to keep Iraq out of the hands of the Iranians. They may not even be dying to keep cheap oil flowing from the Persian Gulf. But they could be dying so that hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Iraqis can stay alive a little bit longer -- that is, until President Set-in-Concrete leaves office and the new guy bows to the inevitable and pulls the plug on this strategic fiasco. That's what Shrub's so-called humanitarian intervention has come down to."
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