Success in Iraq
There was no honest reason to invade Iraq. They had no weapons of mass destruction, they were enemies of Al Qaeda not they’re friends, and they had no role in the Nine-Eleven attacks. Nor could they in any way be construed as a threat to the United States.
But the war machine, led by Dick Cheney, invaded this foreign country thousands of miles from our shore, racked up a three trillion dollar bill, killed hundreds of thousands of human beings, dislocated millions more.
Remember The Surge that was said to be a great victory and the turning point in the war? It was a scam. What happened was that the insurgents, of every camp, realized that if they stopped attacking Americans and reduced the slaughter of the neighbors then politics would force the U.S. to leave, and it would be open season on whoever stood in their way.
So as we are beginning the process of withdrawal, of most of our forces anyway, it should be noted that we are leaving a fractured government riven by corruption. Any who suggest hope for a healthy and productive nation during our own lifetime is betting against reason.
We won’t care a lot once we get our people out, with as few additional casualties as possible.
The problem, of course, is that most of those people – fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, friends and colleagues – won’t be coming home right away. They’ll be deployed in the killing grounds of Afghanistan, where the Karzai government makes the Maliki government look good.
Perhaps the 260,000 classified cables allegedly delivered by Bradley Manning to Wikileaks will reveal the degenerate incompetence of those making decisions in our government and push Americans over the top in their disgust and outrage about the military adventurism that is undermining our national security.
But then what? Are we expecting a candidate, one of those shining political lights from South Carolina, to lead us to sanity?
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