Five years, several thousand dead Americans, scores and scores of wounded, hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis, millions of displaced people, and three trillion dollars later. All for a needless, pre-emptive invasion on a heaping pile of lies.
For those of you with a high tolerance for pain and tragedy, you can watch over an hour of this staggering, arrogant mendacity at Leading to War. It will easily recall to your mind the wrong we have been up against for the entirety of the Bush Administration, and a Media that was all too willing to follow along (note how Rumsfeld has them laughing in the aisles at one of his dismissive lies in the clip).
Interesting that the presidential race is boiling down to one likely nominee who was (unlike I, to my everlasting shame) against this insanity from the beginning, and another who likes to brag about keeping our men and women in uniform there for a million years. Sounds to me like a great opportunity to vote out of office everyone associated with making Bush's perverse war of choice possible, from McCain down to Sununu and everyone else who ducked the hard reality that war is always and everywhere an absolute last resort.
