It's Iraq, Stupid!

Here's an interesting article about the quagmire in Iraq: The Existentialist Cowboy: Bush says "stay the course" — but there is no course to stay.

Bush will withdraw and perhaps sooner than we think. It'll make the US withdrawal from Viet Nam — a mad scramble for helicopters atop an embattled US embassy —look like Dunkirk. Look at the map. How will Bush withdraw from Iraq if it makes of Iran an enemy? Iran guards the Straits of Hormuz —the only way in, the only way out. It will be a humiliating, world-changing experience in which a spoiled frat boy will fall and the the US will forever lose its pre-eminence on the world stage.

I think it's so sad how much suffering we are causing, and meanwhile not preventing (see Darfur, etc.)

Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are costing hard-pressed US taxpayers $300,000,000 per day! These wars are lost. Yet, imbecilic members of Congress are in the process of funding the war for another year. Multiply $300 million by 365 days and you get $109,500,000,000. These are not the full costs. The huge figure does not include the destroyed equipment, destroyed lives, and long-term care of the maimed and disabled. ...

I think everyone can agree that this is too steep a cost for an illegal occupation based on neocon lies based on megalomaniacal dreams.