dubya's SHAME

Will the U.S. ever leave Iraq? Iraqization doesn’t seem to work, does this mean that the U.S. will decide to stay indefinitely in Iraq to guard the isolated, embattled pro-American regime? "It seems that the Bush administration has finally realized the growing domestic opposition to what is increasingly seen as a failed war."

Thousands of Iraqis suffered under crippling sanctions SANCTIONS - the real crime

US and British occupation of Iraq

is regarded as the re-emergence

of the old colonialist practices

of the western empires in some quarters. 

The real ambitions underlying

the brutal onslaught are still highly

questionable -

and then there are the blatant lies over weapons of mass destruction originally used to justify the war.

There were no great victory marches by the occupiers, nor were they thrown garlands of flowers and greeted in triumph.

More US soldiers have died in Iraq since George Bush declared an end to the war on 1 May 2003 prompting the question: Will Iraq turn into a new Vietnam eventually bringing the US to its senses ... or perhaps to its knees?

Iraq's history, and along with it that of the Arab Muslim world, speaks of several similar encounters.

In the past, enemies attacked from East and West before they were swallowed by the moving sands of the region, or forced to retreat, leaving behind a phoenix-like people who adore life and still accept to die for their freedom.

The escalating Iraqi resistance seems to be setting the stage for another act which might usher in a new Arab World