We Can't Win Iraq's Civil War

The situation in Iraq is deteriorating rapidly, and American troops in the center of the Iraqi civil war only exacerbates the chaos.

Stay-the-Course-plus 20% is not the answer.

There is no answer and no good outcome is possible. Our president was intent on launching a vanity war and now he is intent on escalating it, dismissing the critics - who have been abosolutely right on everything so far, and are right again - with "I'm the decision-maker on Iraq." And we all know what wise decisions he has made so far, so confidence just soared when he stamped his wittle foot and jutted out his inbred chin and told us how it's going to be.

You see, it's going to work this time because he told them it has to.

Yep.

Which begs a question: If it's that fucking easy, why didn't he tell them that the first time?

What is going on in Iraq now is a different conflict than the one that was initiated in March of 2003. This is a sectarian civil war and Americans are caught in the crossfire. Maintaining that American victory in Iraq is a must is the height if cognitive dissonance. We can no more win their civil war than China could have won ours in 1863. It just doesn't make any fucking sense.

Yesterday was a good start. People were in the streets from coast to coast, making their voices heard and their opposition known. We had an election, it was a referendum on the war in Iraq, the American people want change, and the untreated mental patient in the oval office decided what we meant by that was more war, not less.

Keep the momentum going, folks. Don't back down. Dissent is what this country was founded on, and do not be detered. When one of the 28% that comprises the DDE (deluded dead-enders) brigade questions your patriotism for having the audacity to oppose the ab-surge-ity of the chickenhawk in chief's war policy, look at them and smile and say "How very Soviet of you, Commrade!"

Men like my husband didn't win the cold-war so our own authoritarians could have a clear shot at goose-stepping us toward fascism. They won it to preserve American freedom.

Protest and dissent founded this country.

Now it is up to the True Patriots among us to save our Republic, employing those very same techniques.