| i support the troops - i want to bring all of them home, rather than have them continue to fight and die in this pointless sham of a war.
it seems that the military initially did try to cover it up, and later changed its mind once it realized that the media wasn't going to simply drop the story. the more this war continues, the deeper the pit of hypocrisy and pointlessness becomes. like boetie said, bush has no business talking about honor or anything else - since his administration has pushed for this bogus war, pro-torture policies, near-total disregard for innocents killed (eg. they still don't count civilian casualties), etc...
as the ever-evolving rationale for iraq goes, why are we there now? it's not to protect ourselves against wmd's or humanitarian/nation-building escapades... it's because leaving would mean that iraq would collapse under the power vaccuum if we left - and that's one piss-poor reason for wasting more lives/treasure on war. it's also a situation where it's nearly impossible to develop a real exit strategy (the wait and see game is no strategy).
now we see more symbolism connecting this war to vietnam.. how can it possibly get better over there? i thought the insurgency was supposedly in its last throes, per dickhead cheney? |