The Obvious Truths about the Iraq War
Chuck Puckett, over at The Year of Being 56, has a good idea: No talking about the Iraq War without first stating The Obvious Truths.
Why? Because we Americans have short memories, and the vampires in Washington are using it to their advantage every chance they get:
In any discussion that deals with “freedom on the march” or “sectarian violence” or “Iraq is a hotbed of terrorism” or “if we leave, the country will dissolve into chaos”, the Obvious Truths put everything into the proper contextual framework:
We caused all this crap.
Or, to be more precise, CheneyBushRumsfeld caused it (started it, then immediately bungled the war they couldn’t wait to have). Every atom, every iota of the unholy mess has its source in the actions of those criminals. We must never forget this. And even though we, as a nation, must admit to a gross sin of omission by allowing ourselves to be blinded by the simplest forms of fear-mongering combined with jingoistic flag-waving, their sins of commission are almost astronomical in comparison. To knowingly feed your countrymen a diet of fear and misinformation, and then to feed your youngsters to a meat-grinding insanity like Iraq, those are the acts of demons.
Read the rest of Chuck’s thoughts on the U.S. Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, and the surge that keeps on going: Day 100: An Accounting.
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We all know what a mess Iraq is. We don’t need all these Monday morning quarterbacks rehashing the same old stuff. For once I would like somebody to come up with something better then we have to start withdrawing today.
I don’t care how simple a plan, just tell me how you propose to withdraw all these troops without jeopardizing them, or all the Iraqi citizens that worked for the military all these years.
I’m not sure everybody knows what a mess Iraq is. There are those who keep believing the President and the generals on the ground–you know, the few he doesn’t replace for saying stuff he didn’t want them to say. But, looking at history, I’d say a withdrawal will go something like the Fall of Saigon, where we play “White Christmas” over the radio as a signal for everybody to get the hell out of Baghdad, take as many as we can on helicopters, and leave all those Iraqis that helped us to their fate. Life sucks sometimes for some people. Nobody came to the rescue of those people in Atlanta when Sherman came through. Friendly folks in Saigon were killed. But, by us leaving Vietnam, the killing that had gone on for over a decade came to an end within a short time, and things worked out. At some point, we have to quit pouring a billion dollars a week into Iraq or declare it the 51st state. It’s been over 4 years now…time to crap or get off the pot.
The way you put it, I would have to agree with you a 100%.
It’s the nature of a quagmire, sometimes it costs you your boots.
Remember, it’s the contention of the brain trust that thought going in was a good idea that says leaving would be a disaster. Why does anyone continue to listen to these guys?
Insult to injury is never a good idea.
Staying is simply Bushco running out the clock, nothing more. They are hip-deep in the shit, with nothing to lose.
I like the idea of a “Super Committee” that enforce a few basic rules.
Like: You lie and you are out and never can work in a position of trust again. You scheme to kill people in a false war, you and all your cronies get shot on a live FOX broadcast.
You work for FOX or tell a bunch of BS for the other networks and you get sentenced to listen to blaring Ann Coulter rants for 20 years, 24/7.
I wouldn’t even mind a secret super committee at this point.
Yeah, I know it’s wild, but sometimes the damage is so great, you just have to scrape things down to the dirt and start over.
> get sentenced to listen to blaring Ann Coulter rants for 20 years, 24/7.
Ouch. Worse than water boarding, by a long shot!