what we are saying...

Head to Glenn Greenwald's place for a no-punches-pulled look at the surge's escalation in air strikes by guest author Chris Floyd:

For what the air campaign, and the "offensives into neighborhoods," are really saying is brutally frank:

"We invaded your country under knowingly false pretenses, fixing the intelligence around the policy, because our leaders, who were in possession of vast amounts of intelligence that undermined or refuted their stated casus belli, couldn't reveal their true, long-held intentions. ('I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil,' Alan Greenspan says.) We destroyed your infrastructure, we destroyed your society, we destroyed your history, we enthroned extremist militias to rule over you, we tortured your sons and fathers in the same hellhole that Saddam used, we killed a million of your people and drove millions more from their homes. And we intend to stay here for as long as we like, in the vast 'enduring bases' we are building on your land. Now if you don't accept this, if you keep shooting at us and trying to make us leave, then we will go on bombing your families in their homes, we will go on killing your women and children, until you stop."

And, as he points out, it will only get worse if we "draw down" - because we'll have no other way to protect our own troops. Only if we damned well leave will it stop.

Will we stop it...

Will we?