This Stupid War

Everyone thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Colin Powell, February 2001:

[Saddam] has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq.

British Member of Parliament George Galloway to the United States Senate:

I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.

Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.

So according to the right wing, Bush wants to win while the anti-war contingent wants to cut and run. What exactly does Bush want to win? The war against Iraq? The war against the insurgents? The war on terror? We can't win because there is nothing to win. The longer we stay the more we lose. The longer we stay the more the people of Iraq lose. Remember, the anti-war contingent either never believed the claim of weapons of mass destruction or preferred to let UN inspectors try to find them. For us, going to war in the first place was a huge loss. Leaving Iraq now isn't about winning or losing, it's about ending a war that should have never started.