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"The U.S. intelligence community was "simply wrong" in its assessments of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capabilities before the U.S. invasion, according to a panel created to study those failures and recommend corrections to prevent them in the future.
"We conclude that the Intelligence Community was dead wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction," said a letter from the commission to President Bush. "This was a major intelligence failure." |
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GEE WHILLKIKERS, DO YOU THINK? IT SURE IS TOO BAD THAT THERE WAS NO ONE TELLING YOU THAT BEFORE YOU KILLED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AND SPENT BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF OUR MONEY TO DO IT!
A new excuse for the war is made up every time the old ones are proved wrong. We've gone from Weapons of Mass Destruction to "Weapons of Mass Destruction Related Activities" to "Saddam Was Still a Bad Man" to "Look, Over There, Failed Attempts at Democracy!" to "Don't Worry About Iraq! Terri Schiavo! Social Security! Culture Of Life!"
You don't think that all the bullshit that these people have been tossing our way has anything to do with making us pay attention to something else besides the horrible failures in their foreign policy? And here's yet another swift kick in the pants for them, but will it make any difference? Probably not.
Aside from the deaths, we must also remember the torture at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere and that in Iraq, the United States is now detaining a record 10,200 people, more than double the number held five months ago.
I am disillusioned, sad, and tired of all of this. These people have so irrevocably changed the way our government and foreign policy works for the worse that I don't know how we'll possibly fix things anytime soon, even after we've booted these assholes out of our government.
I'm sorry to be so serious and depressing about this, but look at this photo:
An Iraqi girl screams after her parents were killed when U.S. Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division out of Ft. Lewis, Washington, fired on their car when it failed to stop and came toward soldiers, despite warning shots, during a dusk patrol January 18, 2005 in Tal Afar, Iraq.
All I can ask is, was it worth it?
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