As we watched a convoy head for Kuwait, and as we argue about it, we lose sight of the fact that ...

[Stinky The Clown]

...... this was George Bush's war.

It didn't have to happen.

It served no world purpose.

It was the biggest foreign policy blunder in US history.

It looted our treasury and may yet prove to be the cause of our future bankruptcy.

It was the cover for the kleptocracy.

It enriched the rich on the backs of the now nearly extinct American Middle Class.





And the low flying helicopter was not bearing troops or providing close air cover. It was carrying media who could take pictures for consumption back home.





And now the State Department is in the business of rebuilding the country, assisted by incoming mercenaries. Several thousand are expected soon. Guys with guns, not counted among "the troops" remaining.

[onehandle]

1. I will never lose sight of that. nt

[lonestarnot]

2. Now I've read some of your stuff that entertained me, other stuff that was enlightening, but how in

the fuck would you ever think I would forget about a fucking thing like that?

[Greyhound]

3. .

[TheKentuckian]

4. Absolutely, that's why I'm not feeling like celebrating

Really getting out will be much tougher.

[G_j]

5. Iraqi casualties

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War



Source Iraqi casualties March 2003 to...

Iraq Family Health Survey 151,000 violent deaths.
June 2006

Lancet survey 601,027 violent deaths out of 654,965 excess deaths. June 2006

Opinion Research Business survey 1,033,000 violent deaths as a result of the conflict. August 2007

Associated Press 110,600 violent deaths
April 2009

Iraq Body Count 95,888 – 104,595 violent civilian deaths as a result of the conflict.
April 2010

[Scruffy1]

10. Thanks for the list

The MSM only talks about US casualties.

[grasswire]

6. and more than 4000 men and women...

..spent their last moments dripping their blood into the sand a world away from family, for neoconism. Never forget them, never forget their family's bitter sacrifice, and never forget the human toll of Iraqis killed, maimed, displaced, tortured, terrorized.

All for W.

[unblock]

7. shrub campaigned against "nation building". did the media call out his flip flop?

back in 2000 he was opposed to "nation building" and insisted that any military engagement needed a clear "exit plan".

then once in office he's all about bringing democracy to iraq and afghanistan and of course even suggesting an "exit plan" is deemed practically treason.

if kerry mispoke on a trivial issue, you'd hear nothing but "flip flop" for a month, but shrub got away with murder -- literally.

[lumpy]

9. And it still isn't over

x

[Solly Mack]

8. Never once forgot that.

[mdmc]

11. Yet, if MISSION ACCOMPLISHED in under 11 years = SUCCESS

Bush is brilliant for lying us into war, removing a dictator from power, and establishing a pro-west, unified, secular, stable Iraq.

I opposed the war because I thought that a pro-west, unified, secular, stable Iraq was between 50 and 100 years of blood and treasure away.

[GeorgeGist]

12. most have lost sight of the fact ...

that Iraq is now a military dictatorship.

[niyad]

13. don't worry, I have never, and will never, forget this.

[Warren Stupidity]

14. We have the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis on our hands.

Eventually we will have to pay for that.