Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Would you want to wager your life's savings?

At Counterpunch, William Blum asks an excellent question:

As to the US leaving [Iraq] ... utterly meaningless propaganda until it happens. Ask the people of South Korea — 56 years of American occupation and still counting; ask the people of Japan — 64 years. And Iraq? Would you want to wager your life's savings on which decade it will be that the last American soldier and military contractor leaves?