Judging by the froth in the mainstream media, you’d have thought that the Iraq Study Group report was coming directly from the pen of Jesus, a document that would deliver us from our own evil and set beleaguered Iraq on a path to peace and brotherhood.
Wrong. It’s always hard for an imperial power to apologize, even harder for it to admit defeat and flee the scene of the crime. Word to Bush/Cheney: the Invasion/Occupation was a mistake based on lies, your regime is responsible for a calamity, and you two, as principal architects and shills for the fiasco, should be sitting in Leavenworth Prison in orange jumpsuits.
Iraq is fucked, whether the US sticks around for a year or two or folds its tent and retreats as soon as possible. The screwball dreams the Bush/Cheney junta had of a “democratic” Iraq and free-flowing oil opened a Pandora’s Box filled with death and misery.
The US will be washing this blood from its hands for fifty years.
We reap the consequences of a mentally-challenged commander-in-chief, a wicked Vice-President, and a complacent, rubberstamp Congress. It’s a dangerous thing to try and remake the world in your own corrupt image. You’d think our Bible-toting leaders would know better, but all they had in mind was power, and the wisdom of the good book flew straight over their heads.
The anti-war protestors who filled city streets all over the world in 2002 and 2003 were right, though it didn’t take a crystal ball to predict the bloody outcome.
We’ve done enough damage. It’s time to go.
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