(NY) Daily News: "All that sacrifice for nothing in Iraq"

[BattyDem]

from Denis Hamill's column

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/341719p-291738c.html


Except for the final body count, the war in Iraq is over.

We lost.

Islam won. Islam won when it was codified into the new constitution as the guiding North Star of Iraq's future.

This was not startling. After we righteously stormed into Afghanistan and kicked some butt, we abandoned the search for Osama Bin Laden, who killed those 2,700 people in downtown Manhattan, for a bait-and-switch invasion of Iraq.

[aquart]

1. That's a Denis Hamill column.

Sadly, not an editorial. I did wonder.

[BattyDem]

5. Sorry ... I just edited my post and identified it as Hamill's column

I probably should have mentioned that. :blush:

[uppityperson]

2. Bravo, good article. Thank you.

[Call me Deacon Blues]

3. Superb bit of writing

Kicked

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Islam won - So what? It's the middle east isn't it?

What the hell is that idiot so sad about? He didn't really believe that there would be some kind of mass conversion to Protestant "Family values" or something.....he did!

[BattyDem]

6. That's the point, isn't it?

We sent our troops over there based on a lie and created an Islamic state where one didn't exist before and that makes us less safe, not more.

They died for nothing. :-(

[Barrett808]

7. "Islamo-fascism is the greatest threat to mankind in the 21st century"

Well, I'd have to place Peak Oil and Climate Change a lot higher on the list than "Islamo-fascism." Oh, and the Bush family and its neo-con hangers-on.