I guess it had to happen sooner or later

[asimplechord]

Riverbend and her family are leaving Iraq. I hope they find a place to settle. I wish... gods, I wish so many things. But none of us has a time-turner, do we?

Mission accomplished, Shrub?

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[topaz7.livejournal.com]

I'm glad she's getting out of there, although her blog was certainly a fantastic window into Iraq.

What a clusterfuck. Excuse my language. Hundreds of thousands dead and now the best option is for the US to pull out and let them keep killing each other? Thus saving some American lives, but doing nothing for the Iraqis.

But remember, they hate us for our freedom. /snark.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

Don't even get me started. Four years ago, I was working in Utah in a lab with a really conservative Bush-fan and we used to argue everyday, with me telling him it was going to be a mess that would make the world hate us and end exactly like Vietnam did. He kept telling me I was a crazy flamin' liberal. It's easy for me to say "I told him so" in the comfort of my suburban life, though. Doesn't help the people the Shrub (I refuse to own him as my CiC - I voted and campaigned against him) has caused to be killed, maimed, or displaced, though.

[topaz7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's no satisfaction in being right about this. When they first bombed Baghdad and it seemed like things went just the way the Shrub predicted - I actually had that feeling of "well, I was wrong, thank goodness". It was a relief rather than disappointment.

So now we are vindicated and it feels like shit.