Guest post on the Iraq War (kudos, Chuck)

I post this today because it was written as a comment on Tony's KC Blog today and because it likely won't get the readership and coverage it deserves, given the tragedy and tragic blunder and scope that was and is the nightmare we call the Iraq War and the lies from the previous administration that created it.

A local writer and follower of TKC whom I only know as "chuck" (in blue on the site, :)  ), wrote the following and with the one exception to it that there were, in fact, a small group of us who saw through the lies from W's administration and publicly protested the war, before it happened, Chuck is right on target, no pun intended.  Please note that, yes, there are some grammatical errors.  In the first place, as Chuck says, he gets "worked up" about this subject--as do I--but he gets his point across very well, I think, and if perfect English has to suffer, so be it.  Also, finally, be forewarned, it also has some profanity in it.  I leave it in here and don't censor partly for Chuck's free speech rights and partly to emphasize what a profane situation the Iraq War is and has been since we allowed it to happen--because we did allow it to happen, people--back in 2003.

The unmitigated disaster that is the Iraq war, is an abomination.

A galactic blunder, fostered on the American and Iraqi people by think tank Republican apparatchiks who aquired superficial and temporary power and gravitas through the Bush ascendancy.

Hundreds of thousands of people, including 4,000 Americans (Not including 250,000 wounded, when including Iraqis.) now lie dead next to the failed policies and legacy of the Bush administration.

Bush's new twist (See Interviews this week.) on WMDs is a disgraceful excuse for a 21st century "fantasy, and a trick of fame".

Charley Sheen, drunk on his ass, could have prepared, thoght out, and executed a better strategy.

I know hindsight is 20/20, but the laundry list of stupidity related to this bloody endeavor is lengthy and were it not so horrifying, laughable.

The blowback from this international adventure will hang like an cheap incense cloud over any mideast efforts for decades to come. No matter what is being discussed, the smell of our failure is always there.

I remember Cheney on Meet the Press, and Colin Powell at the UN. Hell, I believed them. All of America believed them.

They were lying. I get that, if you win, if it works out, ok.

Trillions of dollars later, we didn't win, and chaos when we leave, is our legacy.

Another Gulf of Tonkin bullshit lie.

This group of morons fucked us just as bad as those Captains of Industry on Wall Street (See Great Recession), and the combination of Trillions spent in both cases, is bringing us to our knees.

Money. Halliburton is Goldman Sachs, is Halliburton.

Halliburton had guys pulling down phone numbers driving trucks in Iraq!

Money.

Condy Rice, at this point has the jene se qua of Robert McNamara sans the regret.

11/13/10 7:54 AM
Follow-up comment from Chuck:

A clarification here.

Colin Powell didn't actually know he was lying at the UN. He wa bullshitted too.

I get worked up a bit with this subject.

Its like bad Science Fiction its so stupid.

If you we could dig up Ayatollak Khomeini, put the paddles on the scumbag fuck, and tell him that the US destroyed the only real opposition to Iranian Theological hegemony in the entire Mid East, explain the whole story in detail, he would call us liars, then when finally convinced, leap for joy.

Its tough to get your arms around this turn of events.

We didn't shoot ourselves in the foot, we got it blown off with our own home made IED.

So my thanks, Chuck.  Not only did you get it correctly and true and with great energy and conviction but you point out what a lot of Americans still need to learn, again, tragically, and what the whole world needs to never forget since "Those who don't know history are condemned to repeat it," paraphrased.

We should have been better, as a people, than to have let this Iraq War begin in our name.  We need to be a better people, by far, than to not learn from it and to ever let anything so wreckless and so humanly expensive and even stupid to ever happen again.

We owe our soldiers and the whole nation far better than this.