We are not at war with Iraq. Got it?

I've stated this before, but I'll beat this horse until its pulp.

If you read the posts last week you now realize that we were never legally at war with Iraq. There is no war in Iraq aside from the civil war between Iraqis. What we have done is illegally invade and occupy a nation. Al Qeada was not known to be in Iraq while Saddam was in charge desspite the lies told by the Bush Crime Family prior to the invasion. He and bin Laden were enemies because Saddam was a secular ruler. The insurgency- which I like to refer to as the Iraqi resistence movement, began fighting back against what they soon saw were foreign troops invading their country.

Somewhere along the propaganda line the resistence fighters were equated with the 9/11 type terrorsists- who we abandoned our search for when we invaded Iraq, and suddenly it became the "war in Iraq".

Congress has never declared war on the nation of Iraq.

A careful read through of the 2002 resolution to use force clearly shows that it was specifically passed to combat Saddam Hussein and his army- not the Iraqi resistence or to peacekeep in the middle of a civil war. Our troops are sitting ducks and they are being used contrary to what the Constitution demands and without legal congressional approval. Yet we still hear people say "war in Iraq"; most alarmingly progressive radio talk hosts. This gives credence to Bush's claim that we are fighting some sort of war in Iraq- some noble cause straight out of a 1940's America war hero movie.

We are not doing any such thing. In fact the build up of troops and the naval increase in the Persian Gulf may be the thing that is convincing more and more Middle Eastern people and Iranians to join with either the Sunnis or the Shiites aginst us- the occupiers and invaders.

So I beg all of you to encourage everyone you know to stop calling this the war in Iraq- call it what it is- the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.

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