I, for one, am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way being blown up by the same bombs day after day. That is absurd. It may even be criminal.-Sen. Gordon Smith (Republican-OR), on the current congress' last day in session, criticizing the Bush administration's incompetent Iraq policy.
It IS criminal, and the President, Vice-President, Attorney General, and the out-going Defense Secretary (among others) should be prosecuted for war crimes by the International War Tribunal.
For the record, Sen. Smith went on to say:
I believe we need to figure out not just how to leave Iraq but how to fight the war on terror and to do it right.(My italics.) Four years later these Republicans - and many other Americans, Republicans and Democrats - are finally (finally!) coming to the realization that the Iraq War has diminished our capacity to fight the global war against terror.
I know hindsight is 20/20, but you can forgive those of us who were in the small minority arguing against this war for precisely that reason in late 2002 for being so flabbergasted by where things stand today.
We saw this coming. And no one listened.
