RE: Today's Editorial
The Administration treats the decision making process in Iraq as though it is a raucous PTA meeting where parents can't agree on whether to have a bake sale or a car wash to fund the school dance. Your editorial board continues to write as though -- under what I think is clearly an illusion -- anyone in Washington is capable of governing or administering anything more complex than a high school dance. Actually, I think they would bollocks that up as well, since students might find a place to make out under the bleachers.
This Administration lied about WMD, doctored up intelligence, had no strategy to secure a hostile nation inhabited by people about whom they knew nothing (after all, who doesn't want SUVs and McDonalds?), and yet people act like there is some hope that something rational, organized, or sensible has a chance of happening in Iraq. Sending more troops to Iraq is like allowing people to bring 1 liter worth of 3.4 oz liquid containers: totally expensive to implement, while accomplishing nothing to protect anyone. Meanwhile, the American taxpayer is footing what will eventually be a 1 to 2 trillion dollar tab.
I am beside myself with outrage, and staggered that the American people are so indifferent, and that there is conversation of something other than impeachment by the new Congress. President Clinton was impeached for a bit of childish indiscretion. President Bush is responsible for the deaths of tens or hundreds of thousands of Iraqis because he lied (and/or because Dick Cheney and his friends knew they would profit beyond their wildest dreams from the inevitable cash grab that private contracting in Iraq has proven to be), and yet no one is seriously considering trying to remove this threat to world peace from office. I am ashamed of my country, and I am furious that a small minority of greedy, ignorant bigots are potentially ruining the world for generations to come. See you in New Orleans, assholes.
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