The President's address and our situation in Iraq

What happened to confident and eloquent? Confession: I didn't see President Obama's address last night on TV on Iraq. Forgive me. I usually never miss these things. (Perhaps I'm getting a life?) Anyway, several sources said he seemed clumsy or uncomfortable. How odd. He probably knows he can't win on this one--Republicans are going to say he's either screwing it up or that they were right about it all along while the Democrats and Left are going to complain a) he didn't get us out soon enough and b) we still aren't completely out, what with 50,000 troops still over there. It's a rock and a hard place, for sure, only made made worse and more complicated by neighboring Afghanistan. What a mess. But what really gets me, today, is a report I found on Think Progress showing that now-ex Bush appointees and employees are saying they want "credit" for the Iraq and Iraq War "success". EXCUSE ME?? Right. Let's see. 4415 American soldiers killed. 30,182 wounded. Untold thousands of Iraqis dead and wounded. Millions, I believe, homeless or displaced. The war was internally, nationally illegal and internationally illegal as well. It was unprovoked. Saddam Hussein was cooperating. Then, there's the fact that we broke, virtually destroyed this country. We shattered Iraq. It's a mess--physically, structurally and in terms of governance. It's a mess. Finally--though the list could be much longer--there's the fact that it helped us, largely, to go from budget surpluses as a country, to huge and gross budget deficits. You just can't say enough of how wrong, wrong-headed and blatantly stupid this Iraq War was and is and yet these clowns have the unmitigated chutzpah to say they deserve "credit" for its "success"? Tell that to all the family members, friends and loved ones who lost those soldiers. Link to original post: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/01/iraq-war-architects-credit/comment-page-2/#comment-6349275