Opinion (Nanwica Kciji): A Lakota mother with 2 sons in Iraq asks, 'Which one was it?'

Brett Lundstrom

Perhaps there should be a new recruitment motto for the military personnel that are about to become George W’s “new surge army.” It might be “This is not just a job, it’s an occupation.”

When President Bush proclaimed “Mission Accomplished” he was partly correct because the actual ground war, the invasion, was over. Something new happened after that and it should have been classified immediately as a “guerilla war,” not as an insurgency. It was a guerilla war in every sense of the word.

Iraq has become a country occupied by a foreign army that is under siege by an independent group of guerillas intent on forcing it to abandon their country. But the twist is that the guerillas are also intent on killing each other in what has become a sectarian war. If the guerillas would stop fighting each other and turn a united front against the army they consider to be the occupiers, things would be much worse for the American army.

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