U.S. INCREASES BOMBING OF IRAQI TARGETS

Now we learn that the United States has stepped up its bombing of targets in Iraq for the first four months of 2007. This is sure to cause civilian casualties, and Charles J. Hanley of the AP says this is the case:

"Four years into the war that opened with "shock and awe," U.S. warplanes have again stepped up attacks in Iraq, dropping bombs at more than twice the rate of a year ago.

"The air power escalation parallels a nearly four-month-old security crackdown that is bringing 30,000 additional U.S. troops into Baghdad and its surroundings — an urban campaign aimed at restoring order to an area riven with sectarian violence.

"It also reflects increased availability of planes from U.S. aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf. And it appears to be accompanied by a rise in Iraqi civilian casualties."

So if the U.S. surge cannot make any headway against Iraqi insurgents and nationalists on the ground, then bomb them from the air. How reminiscent of VietNam. Destroy this village in order to save it. Kill all the women and children in an attempt to kill the insurgents. Otherwise, they will follow us home and attack us over here.



This is the typical drivel we hear from George Bush and Dick Cheney and all the other administration hangers-on. They would rather destroy and kill everyone in Iraq than admit their invasion and occupation has been a catastrophic and disastrous foreign policy misadventure.