Post #65

Subject: The immorality of the Iraq War….

In my Post #62, I quoted Joe Scarborough on his MSNBC show. I think his whole quote is telling – especially from the right – and worthy of a whole post. My responses and additions – in [brackets]….

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SCARBOROUGH: Yes. Well, I‘ll tell you what. I‘ll tell you where I am right now on this war. I supported the war from the very beginning. Anybody that has watched this show for four years knows I was one of the biggest supporters of the war. And I was a big supporter for the war because it came about a year after the 9/11 attacks. We had our CIA director, everybody else, said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. They were all wrong. I wanted to go into Iraq because I believed at the time it was in America‘s best interests.

[Yep, George W. Bush pissed on your leg and said that it was raining! :p Actually, I respect that you were scared shitless – I was, too. Shame on Bush for his disregard of the truth, the whole truth, and his “New Way Forward,” an effort to hand off responsibility for his mess to the next President.]

That‘s all I cared about. I didn‘t care about world peace. I didn‘t care about spreading democracy across the globe. I wanted to protect America. At some point, you‘ve got to say what‘s in America‘s best interests, after we found out that Saddam Hussein didn‘t have nukes, and now that there‘s no Saddam Hussein—at some point, you have to start asking, When is your neighbor going to step up to the plate? When are they going to take care of the mess in their own yard, in their own back yard?

[We created that mess. But you are correct, Joe: At some point, you throw up your hands and just leave. Intellectually, I agree with Joe Biden in my Post #62 and #64 – we must do the hard work to get a positive outcome in Iraq. But, emotionally, I’m ready to face the bad consequences – the Iraq civil war that spreads across the Middle East, a cut off of oil, Iran armed with an atomic bomb named “George W. Bush.” The longer we stay, the worse things will be when we do leave.]

How many more young Americans from California, from Kansas, from Georgia, from Maine, have to die because Iraqis, as Pat Buchanan said, who were willing to have 500,000 of their own people slaughtered in a war against Iran, or the Afghanistan people, who stood up to the Soviet Union for almost a decade—how much longer do Americans put everything they have, give up their young, give up billions of dollars, soon to be trillions of dollars, for countries that just don‘t seem to want democracy and freedom enough to actually fight for them themselves?

That‘s a question that most Americans are finding themselves asking. And at some point, we‘ve got to say, Enough is enough. I agree with Arianna Huffington. You know, if you look at the number of Americans who died after the Tet offensive in 1968, it‘s just—at some point, it becomes immoral continuing in a war that you know your country can‘t win.

[The sad thing is that we have already won: We achieved our military objectives to protect America’s interests. Now, we are bleeding to death for the honor and glory of Bush’s “utopian” dream, not America’s interests.]