Herbert: A War Without Reason

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/18/opinion/18herbert.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=

Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."
- President Bush, Oct. 7, 2002

There should no longer be any doubt that the war in Iraq is an exercise in lunacy. It was launched with a spurious rationale, the weapons of mass destruction, which turned out to be a fantasy relentlessly stoked by obsessively hawkish middle-aged men who ran and hid when they were of fighting age and the nation was at war.

Now we find that we can't win this war we started. Soldiers and civilians alike are trapped in the proverbial briar patch, unable to move around safely in a country that the warmongers thought would be easy to conquer and then rebuild.

There is no way to overstate how profoundly wrong they were.

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The president likes to say he made exactly the right decision on Iraq. Each new death of a soldier or a civilian, each child who loses a parent to the carnage, each healthy body that is broken or burned in this war that didn't have to happen, is a reminder of how horribly wrong he was.

[OneBlueSky]

1. oh, there's a reason all right . . .

$$$$$$$$ . . . in the pockets of BushCo friends and associates . . . lots and lots of $$$$$$$ . . .

[Demeter]

2. We're an EMPIRE, Now, No Reason To Use Reason

No need to deal with facts. F**k Reality! (and Reality will return the favor!)

[BlueEyedSon]

3. kick for tues