No war in Iraq!
Posted by Nathaniel.
It’s a nice sentiment isn’t it? The anti-war folks were protesting across from the Hanover Inn when I was driving home. I think it was to support the woman who’s making sure the president knows that the war is a bad idea.
Now, I think the entire war was started as a political exercise and the reasons we went to war were flat out lies from the president. However, we’re in Iraq now and, sadly, we can’t just leave. It would be nice if we could. However, look at Afghanistan. The Soviets invaded, occupied the place for a few years and then fled. The Taliban resulted which is really pretty horrible considering that it was in a place where the greatest natural resource was rocks.
Iraq may not have any WMD, but they definitely have other weapons and they have a way to pay for new bad things if they wanted. So sadly, we’re stuck there until we can fix the place up. It’s a case of “we made the problem, now we have to fix it.”
Fuck the president.