After waking up to Iraq war reality, what's the U.S. next plan?

After waking up to Iraq war reality, what's the U.S. next plan?
5/30/2006 9:00:00 AM GMT

The question of whether the U.S. will extend its unjustified presence in
war-torn Iraq looms larger as worldwide media reports daily a noticeable
surge in the American army casualties.

The U.S. invasion of Iraq, waged first to oust the country's former
President Saddam Hussein, was an unjustified use of military power in
dealing with unproven suspicions that the former Iraqi regime was seeking to
produce chemical weapons to use it against the United States, and that the
ousted President Saddam Hussein had links to Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda
network.

The false rationale for launching Iraq war has undermined the U.S.
credibility globally. Also the military campaign itself diverted U.S.
attention and drained resources from more urgent national security issues.

But experts say that Iraq war is just an initial stage of a wider U.S. plan
that includes engaging in further wars in the region.

A recent editorial on the International Herald Tribune stated that "America
is at the outset of a long war."

Growing dissatisfaction with the war in Iraq has driven President Bush's
approval ratings to all-time low.

According to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the American President's approval
rating has slumped to 31%, the lowest of his presidency, which comes as a
warning for Republicans in the November elections.

The survey showed Bush standing down by 3 percentage points in a single
week. His disapproval rating also reached a record: 65%.

"It is a challenging political environment," said spokeswoman for the
Republican National Committee, Tracey Schmitt.

But this slide in the U.S. public support to Iraq war is not just indicative
of the failure of the U.S. Army units there, but of chaotic leadership.

Iraq war has blossomed into a crisis of expectations that threatens the U.S.
credibility as well as its capability to deal with domestic problems now and
in the future.

But the Bush administration seems insistent on not changing its policy,
ignoring the disaster it has inflicted upon the Middle East on one hand and
on the American public on the other. The U.S. government's sole aim now is
to insulate the public from the reality of war, placing its burden on the
few. The U.S. media has attempted to fill that gap by focusing on the
"insurgents'" non-stop attacks in the country.

Iraq war demonstrated a clear U.S. preference for unilateral military
responses to perceived threats, which, according to political experts, risks
isolating the country on one hand, and undermines international efforts to
halt the spread of terrorism.

There's concern that the U.S. might be using the current dispute over Iran's
nuclear program as another false justification to launch another war in the
Middle East.

Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, 1991-1998, and author of
Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of America's Intelligence Conspiracy,
was once quoted in June last year as saying that "The reality is that the
U.S .war with Iran has already begun. As we speak, American over flights of
Iranian soil is taking place, using pilotless drones and other, more
sophisticated, capabilities".

Suggestions and warnings that the U.S. would attack Iran the coming weeks to
knock down its nuclear installations were further asserted last month, with
the release of Seymour Hersh's article in The New Yorker suggesting that the
U.S. had been conducting covert operations inside Iran and plans to use
nuclear weapons to bomb Iranian targets.

Whether Iran or Iraq, both are part of a longer term U.S. military agenda
seeking to militarize the entire region and lay hand on its oil wealth,
eventually leading to the destabilization of the Middle East and the Arab
world.

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