Iraq War Cheerleaders - Fred Kagan and Bill Kristol

You would think that they would hang their heads in shame, these neoconservative monsters who are responsible for the war in Iraq, but no, they have been writing and speaking almost non-stop to convince Americans (and the world) that civil war is not what we are witnessing in Iraq. "What was striking, following the mosque bombing, was the evidence of Iraq's underlying stability in the face of attempts to undermine it." Oh my gosh, Pollyanna is wearing rose colored glasses!

William Kristol, neocon founder of PNAC and editor of "The Weekly Standard" and talking head regular on Fox News together with Frederick W. Kagan, professor of military history and co-author (with his father, Donald Kagan) of "While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today", spent over a decade prior to the election of George W. Bush in 2000, advocating the invasion of Iraq and the removal by force of Saddam Hussein. Note that these fanatic neoconservatives, along with fellow PNAC members Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and John Bolton have also continually advanced the idea that military force be used against both Iran and Syria.

It is interesting that none of these arm-chair warriors have ever put themselves in harm's way. Intellectual elitists who have proven adept at unleashing deadly fiascos, they prefer to send others to do the fighting and killing deemed necessary to achieve their hegemonic goals. Kristol and Kagan never write about the suffering of the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people have endured the maiming and deaths of their family members, and the destruction of their homes and society because the neoconservative radicals who formed PNAC gained power over the government of the United States of America.

It is time for William Kristol, his father Irving, and the Kagans, Donald, Robert, and Fred, to journey to Iraq. Once there they should spend time explaining in person to each Iraqi family that has suffered the loss of loved ones, why they have been singled out by the neoconservative movement in America. The American Empire cowards should visit Sadar City and definately spend time in Fallujah, and Basra. Perhaps listening to the horrific experiences of Iraqi people themselves will keep these men from committing more "crimes against humanity" by proxy through the use of American troops.

If indeed, Kristol and Kagan were experts on war, foreign policy, and the cultures of other peoples maybe they would have been able to predict that many of the Iraqi security forces trained by the United States would use the training, uniforms, and equiptment to act instead with the militias of religious sects or political parties. Could this be why so many Iraqi civilians are taken away by uniformed Iraqi forces only to be found the following day with execution-style bullet holes in their heads?

Hence the warning that rolled across the televison screens in Baghdad on March 27th, "The Ministry of Defense requests that civilians do not comply with the orders of the army or police on nightly patrols unless they are accompanied by coalition forces working in the area". This warning was translated and posted by Riverbend, on her blog, "Baghdad Burning". She is a young Iraqi woman who has bravely blogged throughout this illegal war while she and her family try to stay alive.

William Kristol and Frederick W. Kagan continue to assert the notion that the new Iraqi security forces are "committed and professional". They probably are but with which militia do their loyalities really lie?

It is time for these psuedo patriots to lay down their pens and zip up their lips least they destroy this country along with the Middle East.

......................Kitchen Window Woman..............