Well, here we are again --- US plans $2.3B arms sale to Iraq. I don't know that an occupied country can buy arms from the occupier. This must be another part of the market economy doctrine that we don't know much about.

There is something wrong with this picture - You have over 300,000 soldiers and hired guns occupying Iraq and now have to sell them arms so, "they can take over policing their nation". Why not take their oil then also.

Considering logical realities of an occupied land any Iraqis that is pictured along side US political or army figures will be a target. At the end that individual will either be dead or living in California. We all witnessed the same in Vietnam. So why we are doing this? And more importantly why Iraqis are doing this --- I say Iraqis should be their own people and not rely on foreign forces for legitimacy or political support. For the US they should stay out of the lime light, if not for any other reason then the fact its just "killing" those people.

Besides now US is a co-conspirator for crimes against humanity our "Iraqi Allies" are committing. Are we ready to go to Hague and defend our actions????

I am not sure if its me or if others see the absurdly of US settling the nuclear dispute with North Korea just because they got the bomb. Doesn't that tell every country that sees itself in US cross hair or real (or perceived) interests in danger to go get the bomb. The west with US leadership is reinforcing the old and destructive notion that only powerful wins. It is a sad day for our human race to be reduced to such a primal being. I hoped, I guess naively, that we perhaps reached a high enough level to rise above our animalistic nature and resolve conflicts without use or even threat of force.

With the North Korean settlement mess we have moved back the clock on any progress we may have made on peaceful conflict settlement. We continue to reward violence with violence, invoke fear of violence to justify inflicting violence and terror on others on the grounds of preserving "democracy and freedom". We raise nationalistic blood pressure to justify preemptive military attach on our "enemies". We lump whole lot of people as our enemy and broadcast fear to our citizens to justify our actions.

Meanwhile the little white dove is getting tired of flying solo.

If we as people are not careful this whole mess will set us back few decades -----