3 Years Later..
Today is the three year annivesary of America's invasion of Iraq.
That was the beginning of a war that everyone in Washington seemed confident would be over by August 2003, but now seems likely to drag on for several more years, end up costing the U.S. taxpayers more than $1 trillion and bring even more Americans home in a body bag.
We continue to occupy Iraq, in spite of the fact that public opinion polls show that roughly 80% of Iraqis want us out of their country, under the claim that we're spreading democracy and freedom. ( I've always thought democracy means that the people decide what is going to happen; not foreign leaders.)
In spite of that, the Republicans in Washington continue to argue that any change of course in Iraq is tantamount to treason and the Democrats are bubbling around like idiots, with no clue of what they want to do.
There's an election this year and, for the first time in my life, I'm voting for nothing but the third-party candidates. The Libertarians. The Greens. Whoever. They don't have a snowballs chance in hell of winning, but they make more sense than anyone else.
That was the beginning of a war that everyone in Washington seemed confident would be over by August 2003, but now seems likely to drag on for several more years, end up costing the U.S. taxpayers more than $1 trillion and bring even more Americans home in a body bag.
We continue to occupy Iraq, in spite of the fact that public opinion polls show that roughly 80% of Iraqis want us out of their country, under the claim that we're spreading democracy and freedom. ( I've always thought democracy means that the people decide what is going to happen; not foreign leaders.)
In spite of that, the Republicans in Washington continue to argue that any change of course in Iraq is tantamount to treason and the Democrats are bubbling around like idiots, with no clue of what they want to do.
There's an election this year and, for the first time in my life, I'm voting for nothing but the third-party candidates. The Libertarians. The Greens. Whoever. They don't have a snowballs chance in hell of winning, but they make more sense than anyone else.
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