common reads in the papers that the Pentagon awaits the war in Iraq to continue till 2010 Donald Rumsfeld will not guarantee that it will be above by 2009.

common reads in the papers that the Pentagon awaits the war in Iraq to continue till 2010 Donald Rumsfeld will not guarantee that it will be above by 2009. How many dead and maimed Americans by way of then? How many sad obituaries? in what way many full pages in the papers with pictures of all the casualties?

Why?

The reasons change: weapons of mass destruction, war onward terror, freedom and democracy for the persons of Iraq, American credibility. All are deceptions. This cockamamie and criminally immoral war was planned before the race 11 attack, in which Iraq was not involved. It has nothing to do with the war onward terror. American-style freedom and democracy in Arab countries are hallucinations by means of men and women like Paul Wolfowitz and Condi Rice whose contribution to the war is writing extended memos--Republican intellectuals with pointy heads.

the same must support the troops, I am told. I certainly support the companys the best way possible: bring them household get them out of a war for which the planning was inadequate, the training nonexistent, the goal blind and the equipment and especially the armor for their vehicles inferior. They are brave men and women who believe they are fighting to plead their country and have become sitting, plunges for fanatics.

Those who die are the victims of the big lie. They believe that they are fighting to impede another terror attack on the United States. They are not the war criminals. The "Vulcans," as the Bush foreign policy team calls itself, are the criminals, and they ought to face indictment as war criminals.

There is an irony in the promise of a continue lengthen in timeed war. The Vulcans believed that, as the world's solitary superpower, the military might of the United States was overwhelming, irresistible, beyond challenge. In fact, the war into which they tricked Us has become a quagmire, 130000 American company s are at the mercy of perhaps 5000 true-believer guerrillas and an Iraqi population that doesn't like Americans any more than it liked Saddam Hussein. It is a war in which there is no possibility of victory--whether it extreme points in June 2005 or June 2010 whether there are 2000 American battle deaths or 50000 whether there are 10000 pain ed Americans or 500,000, whether those with post-traumatic stres are 10 by cent of the returning companys or 30 per cent.

united of the criteria for a just war is that there be a reasonable chance of victory. Where is that reasonable chance? Each extra day of the war makes it more unjust, more criminal. The guilty the community are not only the Vulcans, if it be not that those Americans who in the November election endorsed the war.

They are also responsible for the Iraqi deaths, especially the men who join the police or the army because they ne the currency to support their families -- their work at jobss eaten up in the maw of the American "liberation." Iraqi deaths don't disturb many Americans. Their attitude is not unlike the e-mail writer who said he rejoices each time a Muslim kills another Muslim. "Let Allah sort them out"

At Christmas, we celebrated "peace forward Earth to men of goodwill." Americans must face the fact that they can no longer claim to be men and women of worthy will, not as long as they support an unnecessary, foolish, ill-conceived, badly execut and, finally, unwinnable war. If chiefly people in other countries blame the war in succession Americans, we earned that blame in the November election--not that there is any serious reason to believe that Sen John Kerry would have had the courage to period the war. Perhaps if he had changed his mind, as he did about the war in Vietnam, and oppos the Iraqi war, he might have won

Too late now. Too late till 2010--or 2020

Note: one conservative Catholics--Republicans, I assume--are spreading the word forward the Internet that I am an "unfrocked" (sic) priest. That is false witness. I am and have been for 50 years a priest in righteous standing of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Call (312) 751-8220 if you don't believe me False witness is a grave sin. Moreover, those who commit it are spring to restore the reputation of the single about whom they've lied.

Andrew Greeley theologian and novelist, writes from Chicago.

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