Why is the U.S. Bombing So Many Countries?

So in Jan 2007 U.S. is bombing Somalia "al-Qaeda" suspects. Somalia is an independant , pricipally Muslim" country.
Any wonder why the US is a target?
One reporter, David Blair", " the US is addressing the unfinished business left over from the worst terrorist attacks in African history" National Post Jan 10/07

" Why is the U.S. Bombing So Many Countries? "

Thats pretty easy to answer.... because they have too many bombs and need to use them or else they wont get them in next years budget.

Because they can!!

Perhaps, also, because they should.

AFGHANISTAN: U.S. set to take far greater role in the war as NATO nations fail to meet Obama's hopes for boost in troops to match his 'Afghan surge' of 21,000 new soldiers

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090406.NATO06/TPStory/TPInternational/

Gotta sell the American Dream

Them bombs have an expiration date.
Best before...

That's funny!!

But it's true!!!

Do you think that the really old 1950's atomic bombs are on a clear out list?
If they are I bet you there quite a few in Winnipegers back yards as a cheap display, as Leo Mol's works are so darn expensive!
Who has been out to Leo Mol display at the Assiniboine Park? What shape are his works in?

"What shape are his works in"
weren't they vandalized last year? or was that the year before? hmmm...

Dick Cheney, George Bush- "we'll be welcomed as liberators"


Tens of thousands of Iraqis rally against U.S.


Iraqis took to the streets on the sixth anniversary of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein to demand the withdrawal of American troops.


BY CORINNE REILLY AND SAHAR ISSA


McClatchy News Service


BAGHDAD -- Six years after the United States overthrew Saddam Hussein's government, tens of thousands of Iraqis gathered in the rain in Iraq's capital Thursday to mark the anniversary and renew calls for an American withdrawal.
The demonstrators came in response to calls by Muqtada al Sadr, the influential Shiite cleric who's long decried the U.S. military's occupation, but there were also Sunni Muslims in the crowd.
Draped in Iraqi flags and chanting, protesters packed Baghdad's Firdous Square, where six years ago a crowd cheered the destruction of a statue of Hussein.
''No, no to America,'' demonstrators repeated Thursday. ``No, no to arrogance.''
Speakers at the rally called on President Barack Obama to ''keep his promise to the world'' and withdraw U.S. troops quickly.
''I hope that all the sons of the fervent Iraqi people in all their shades -- Sunni and Shiite, Arab and Kurd, Christian, Sabian and Muslim -- will participate in this demonstration to reject the despicable occupation,'' Sadr said in a statement announcing the event two weeks ago.
Obama, who this week made his first visit to Iraq since he became president, has pledged to pull most American troops from Iraq by next summer. In Baghdad on Tuesday, he said that a recent uptick in violence in Iraq hadn't changed those plans.
Besides an end to the occupation, rally speakers called for ``Iraqi unity.''
Police said that many Sunnis, including prominent leaders, took part. Among the Sunni leaders was Hameed al Hayis, who helped launch the Sons of Iraq, groups of Sunni militiamen whom the United States began paying in 2007 to ally with Americans and help root out al Qaeda in Iraq. Many Sons of Iraq members are former insurgents.
More recently, Hayis formed a majority-Sunni political party that's openly critical of Iraq's Shiite-led government, and won two seats on Anbar's provincial council in January.
In a speech Thursday, Hayis demanded that the government release Shiite Sadrist prisoners and that high-ranking government security officials resign. The recent spike in violence proves that they're unqualified, he said.
His attendance Thursday suggests that his party may be looking to strike an alliance with Sadrists, a possibility that Hayis didn't rule out.
''Our Sadrist brothers have a clear vision. We appreciate that they don't compromise on that,'' he said. ``They don't want an occupation on their land.''

God not every one wants a Wallmart good for them .

Deank wrote:"What shape are his works in"
weren't they vandalized last year? or was that the year before? hmmm...

Did someone put clothes on the nudes?

Jerry Falwell was in town doing a speaking engagment

The US has a lot of practice at bombing, attacking and invading other countries.

http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html

So do the Terrorists

Not everyone the US army shoots at are terrorists. From link above:

"Army put down Black rebellion. (Detroit 1943)"

1943? You might as well make comparisons to the crusades!

FlyingRat wrote:1943? You might as well make comparisons to the crusades!

Every American intervention has been a crusade.

George Bush even called invading Iraq a crusade. The local Muslims really liked that description.

They liked it, as in they thought it was apropos?