Alberto Fernandez (left), a top U.S. State Department diplomat, speaking in Arabic in an interview with al Jazeera that aired Saturday afternoon, confirmed what we already knew when he said "We tried to do our best but I think there is much room for criticism because, undoubtedly, there was arrogance and there was stupidity from the United States in Iraq. We are open to dialogue because we all know that, at the end of the day, the solution to the hell and the killings in Iraq is linked to an effective Iraqi national reconciliation," he said, speaking in Arabic from Washington. "The Iraqi government is convinced of this." He went on to state that failure to pacify the widening sectarian strife in Iraq as well as an enduring insurgency would damage the entire Middle East. "We are witnessing failure in Iraq and that's not the failure of the United States alone but it is a disaster for the region. Failure in Iraq will be a failure for the United States but a disaster for the region." (Emphasis mine)
Lets see - the top Arabic-speaking diplomat in the State Department makes statements like that in Arabic, the top General in the British Army comes out and says that the presence of coallition forces is making the situation in Iraq worse. The Lancet reports a survey finding that approximately 650,000 excess deaths have occured in Iraq since the invasion. Sixteen United States intelligence agencies found that the invasion of Iraq had fueled terrorism, not curbed it.
So what the hell do we do now? What's the exit strategy? How do we extricate ourselves from this clusterfuck? (Notice the children of the neocons, the Brats of Privelege like Jenna and not-Jenna, are not in uniform.)
Things are royally fucked up, and the options range from bad to worse, there is no good. See what you did? The neocons of the United States and the United Kingdom are singularly responsible for this mess. They all have to be held accountable . We should consider war crimes against these people. If the evidence indicates, take them before the very tribunals they authorized. What is to stop the next president from invoking the very law Bush just signed and having Bush and Cheney and Perle and Wolfowitz and Rice and Rumsfeld taken into custody as enemies of the state and rendered to Guantanamo; right before reversing that very law?
