Wednesday, June 14, 2006

a warmonger eats crow

after thousands of dead, tens of thousands crippled for life, and $300 billion wasted; leaving Iraq in ruins, and America no safer; is this the best apology he can muster for cheerleading for Chimpy's disastrous adventure? what we need now is not some lame apology. true contrition should manifest in calls for impeachment of the warmonger-in-chief.

Apologizing for Iraq

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Since the Iraq war was obviously a gross blunder, is it time for those of us who cheered on the war to offer some kind of apology? Here we are—we, the United States—in our fourth year of occupying that sinkhole, and it looks pretty much like the third year, or the second. Will the eighth year of our occupation, or our twelfth, look any better? I know people who will say yes, but I no longer know any who will say it with real conviction. It’s a tough thing, to admit you were wrong. It’s way tough if you’re a big-name pundit with a reputation to preserve. For those of us down at the bottom of the pundit pecking order, the stakes aren’t so high. I, at any rate, am willing to eat some crow and say: I wish I had never given any support to this fool war.
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