I can't believe the quagmire that Iraq has turned into. Did anyone not foresee this exact thing happening?
Country after country of the 'coalition' are abandoning Bush's ill-conceived invasion. Soon who will be left? The US, Britain, and Australia? Of course, Australia has an election this year and if we can remove W's puppy dog, John Howard, from power there is no guarantee that those troops would remain either.
I live in Seattle, and just yesterday a soldier home on furlough from Iraq killed his wife. Killed his wife. His father is blaming George W, and the Iraq war, for the stress on his son to cause him to do such a thing. These reports are getting more and more frequent.
Who's to say it would have been any different had the UN not given censure to the machinations of the Bush Administration? And I don't know if I can be entirely sure it's not the same sort of situation that we were all in with the former Yugoslavia. I do know this, though. Bush has gotten the US into a situation with Iraq where we cannot leave and have a duty to remain and make sure we put the pieces of the country back together again. The world community needs to make this right to the Iraqi people.
We can only do this with the UN's help. We should have had it from day one. It's still not too late.
The question is, will our swashbuckling president with a shiny sheriff's badge be able to eat some humble pie and ask for help? Will he be able to concede that he was wrong to invade Iraq in the first place, even if Saddam Hussein was an evil man who needed to be deposed?
I just hope Americans in general are not blind to the inconsistencies, deceit and injustices of the current Bush administration and get rid of them in November.