Attention: This just in…….. Pentagon numbers say we are winning in Iraq!

Attention: This just in…….. The numbers say we are winning in Iraq!

Recent Bush Government reports from the Pentagon through Associated Press [So they must be reliable, right?] show that the US military losses [deaths only - injuries, maiming and psychological damage don't count] so far this year are only 853. In contrast, the government reports that about 875 Iraqi civilians have been killed during just the month of October. We know that around 10-15% of the Iraqi civilians killed are the work of the mercenary Blackwater brigades, so the US military cannot really take full credit for the slaughter of Iraqi civilians. Nevertheless, when added to the slaughter of over 1000 Iraqis in September, the statistics show that the US is killing more Iraqis every month than American troops the Iraqi “enemy” has killed in almost a year. Therefore, we must be “winning” in the eyes of the Bush Government. No less than Robert Gates declares that the war effort is succeeding.

This report does not claim to be a complete body count. For example, many of the civilian women and children that our troops kill in Iraq are not counted (or at least they are not credited as whole number kills – a three year old might only be worth a credit of a ¼ kill by Pentagon statisticians). So the advantage of slaughter for our side is even greater. Of course, the Pentagon also does not include the deaths of employees of private contractors who supply the troops as that would unnecessarily inflate our statistical losses and unfairly suggest that the human cost of the war is greater than the Bush Administration is justified. They are not really soldiers, after all.

At the current rate of US military effectiveness, we are able to destroy the population of several Iraqi villages each year. The Bush Administration plan to continue the war effort for the next 20 years or more should enable the US military to decimate the Iraqi population. At the very least, the Iraqi civilian population will be driven into the major population centers. And military experts indicate that when grouped together in close quarters it is easier to slaughter more civilians with a single offensive strike. This not only increases our body count, but conserves ammunition.

Unless the noisome backlash of protests from some American activist groups who are still clinging to some “antiquated” notions of "morality" and "international standards of human rights" are able to derail the Bush Administration plans, the US should be able to succeed in annihilating or severely weakening the Iraqi population in the next two decades. That would enable the US government to step in and seize the Iraqi petroleum resources to feed the unabated demand for oil in the US. "The public relations side of things do present some challenges," say Pentagon officials. There is still some grumbling about whether it is appropriate to unilaterally invade a sovereign country and destroy its infrastructure and population. To date, however, no such moralistic or diplomatic factions have been very successful in interrupting the military mission.