is the situation in Iraq a model for the US?

The Smirking Chimp: "You can consider the situation in Iraq as a model for the US - I'm sure that's how our leadership sees it. Iraq has been a great success, exactly as planned, and even the objection that too few militia were sent there to 'do the job' (ensure peaceful transition to democracy) is irrelevant. The oil has been captured and 14 military bases have been esstablished in Iraq. The museum has been destroyed, the artifacts scattered in the campaign to deprive Iraqis of their history and their national identity.

So Iraq has been reduced to violent pandemonium with just a few isolated pockets of relative safety for the US invaders - the new bases and the protected wells - the areas with an economic interest forthe US. To hell with the rest of Iraq and its people, let them struggle, starve and fight each other.

This is exactly the model for the US - a few enclaves of safety for the super rich amidst a country of pandemonium, violence and martial law. These phony terror alerts are a part of the propaganda process in reacing the desired state of anarchy and repression. More will come. People will accept dictatorship for their safety.

Goddamn the federal government for destroying our freedom. Goddamn the corporate lobbysts for hijacking the government. Goddamn the American people for their criminal gullibility. "