But I suppose the one thing that astonishes me above all is the apparent CERTAINTY of almost everyone about Iraq. Here’s a monster called Saddam Hussein (no “annoying thug” as L.K. Burnett suggests in comment 45), with a Stalinist personality cult, heading a Baath party that borrowed heavily from Nazi
totalitarian organization, sitting for decades at the head of a country he’s turned into a nighmarish realm of terror, populated by a circles within circles of cowed informants who make the Stasi look like a plaything.
Cohen doesn't seem to understand that "almost everyone" (outside the neo-con dead enders) is certain that the invasion of Iraq failed because we actually made things even worse.
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Cohen is delusional. It should be noted that while the Anbar Province has become somewhat safer for our troops (AND THANK GOD FOR THAT), it has, unfortunately not become safer for the citizens of Anbar. So the "success" people speak of there is very subjective.
Furthermore, sucess in one or two places does not change the fundamental truth that this was/is the wrong war, in the wrong place. It is still a fact that $1 trillion dollars is being squandered in Iraq. Again, I emphasize, had Iraq been the proper target, had Saddam ever been a serious threat, it would have been worth it. But Iraq and Saddam weren't the problem.
Almost 4000 dead and $1 Trillion in resources gone. Resources that could have been used here at home to rebuild New Orleans. Resources to fix our crumbling infrastructure. Resources to deliver health care to EVERY American. Resources for education.
As our infrastructure literally crumbles beneath our feet, the Bush Administration is building the largest embassy compound in the world in Iraq.
Contempt for public investment is deadly as New Orleans showed us. No one should be fooled. Those who choose to spend $11 billion a month in Iraq while shorting vital investments here at home aren’t securing America, they are weakening it and we are all more vulnerable as a result.
I am pleased that our troops who are stationed in and around Anbar are safer than they were. They'd be safer still if they were redeployed out of the middle of the Iraqi civil war. If we really support them and care about them we will support leaders who have detailed plans for the safe withdrawl of American troops and civilians from Iraq.
Almost everyone does not think we have failed. Almost everyone you know, maybe. Almost everyone you disagree with, probably. But almost everyone is a ridiculous statement.
State your definition of the phrase "almost everyone", JD.
That is Caric's choice of words, so take it up with him. How would I define it? 90-95% or more. Almost everyone.
Actually, it's Cohen's choice of words and he means almost everyone outside the war-monger faction on the right.
Then how do you explain the non war mongers that do not think we have lost?
Then how do you explain the non war mongers that do not think we have lost?
The non warmongers are clearly warmongdering, JD. It's the only possibility.
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