Why Did Bush Destroy Iraq?
by Paul Craig Roberts
March 20 is the third anniversary of the Bush regime’s invasion of Iraq. U.S. military casualties to date are approximately 20,000 killed, wounded, maimed, and disabled. Iraqi civilian casualties number in the tens of thousands. Iraq’s infrastructure is in ruins. Tens of thousands of homes have been destroyed. Fallujah, a city of 300,000 people, had 36,000 of its 50,000 homes destroyed by the U.S. military. Half of the city’s former population are displaced persons living in tents.
Thousands of Iraqis have been detained in prisons, and hundreds have been brutally tortured. America’s reputation in the Muslim world is ruined.
The Bush regime expected a short “cakewalk” war to be followed by the imposition of a puppet government and permanent U.S. military bases. Instead, U.S. military forces are confronted with an insurgency that has denied control over Iraq to the U.S. military. Chaos rules, and civil war may be coming on top of the insurgency. (more…)