Iraq is the war Bush admitted we could not win. He still believes that, but Cheney and Rove won’t let him say so (Rove took away his Bud and Pretzels for a week over that one). Instead the Rebublicans continue to spew propaganda to justify their childish rush to take over the sandbox of the world.

Straight off whitehouse.gov we have a full paragraph of Bush’s speech, “Through our history, America has gone to war reluctantly, because we have known the costs of war. And the war on terror we’re fighting today has brought great costs of its own. Since the hour this nation was attacked, we have seen the character of the men and women who wear our country’s uniform. In places like Kabul and Kandahar, in Mosul and Baghdad, we have seen their decency and their brave spirit. Because of their fierce courage, America is safer, two terror regimes are gone forever, and more than 50 million souls now live in freedom.”

One reads that, thinks, then sees “I know you don’t want war, but since we were atacked we must go to war. There is no difference between Iraq and Afganistan. America is safer because of the war (this is why I can’t take nail clippers on an airplane flight). We have toppled all of the evildoer regimes (mission accomplished), but we still have to stay because we are not done yet. Of course a Democratic reads that and thinks “How long did Bushie have to practice saying Kandahar?”

What? We’re not done? What are we waiting for? Perhaps the day Halliburton bleeds the county dry, loses interest, packs up, and leaves.

Bush then went on to imply that pulling out of Iraq now would make the deaths of soldiers worthless because one would experience “the feeling of sadness over an unfinished life”. He has the gall to use letters from dead soldiers to make his point. Just like the Army has lied about Pat Tillman’s cause of death, so do they threaten soldiers with an inevitable feeling of worthlessness if we do not stay and fight the county that tried to kill his daddy.