When You Don't Know Who The Enemy Is You Kill The Natives

Once you admit that we went to war in Iraq based on lies this administration told us, you have to ask yourself, "if there was no reason for going there, who is the enemy and why are we killing people?" This article tells us what happens when you kill people who are only killing us becasue we are there killing them. Our presence there is illegal and the people we were supposed to be liberating are now our enemies. Read this riviting article from TomPaine.com. It'll knock your socks off.

In September 2002 Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa warned that the invasion of Iraq would "open the gates of hell."

Here's a vision of that hell as reported this month by journalist Tom Lasseter of Knight Ridder Newspapers, embedded with the U.S. Army in Samarra:

Five soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division scrambled down, pulled two of the insurgents' bodies from the reeds and dragged them through the mud. "Strap those motherf-----s to the hood like a deer," said Staff Sgt. James Robinson. The soldiers heaved the two bodies onto the hood of a Humvee and tied them down with a cord. The dead insurgents' legs and arms flapped in the air as the Humvee rumbled along. Iraqi families stood in front of the surrounding houses. They watched the corpses ride by and glared at the American soldiers.

This stark image is as good a metaphor as any for the current military and political posture of the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East.

Across the region—and beyond— Arabs and Muslims are now glaring at U.S. power in the same way as those Iraqi families glared at the soldiers of the 101st Airborne.

This is what our billions are paying for. Tell your congress persons and senators "not in my name!"