Via NTodd, Riverbend speaks:
"This last year especially has been a turning point. Nearly every Iraqi has lost so much. So much. There's no way to describe the loss we've experienced with this war and occupation. There are no words to relay the feelings that come with the knowledge that daily almost 40 corpses are found in different states of decay and mutilation. There is no compensation for the dense, black cloud of fear that hangs over the head of every Iraqi. Fear of things so out of ones hands, it borders on the ridiculous- like whether your name is 'too Sunni' or 'too Shia'. Fear of the larger things- like the Americans in the tank, the police patrolling your area in black bandanas and green banners, and the Iraqi soldiers wearing black masks at the checkpoint.
Again, I can't help but ask myself why this was all done? What was the point of breaking Iraq so that it was beyond repair? Iran seems to be the only gainer. Their presence in Iraq is so well-established, publicly criticizing a cleric or ayatollah verges on suicide. Has the situation gone so beyond America that it is now irretrievable? Or was this a part of the plan all along? My head aches just posing the questions."
Who is going to tell her our preznit is giving it all he's got and had a hard thought for three hours today to think of a ... you know... actual plan? That nothing that has happened in Iraq was on their Plan A list so they didn't know what to do? That destroying a functioning country's infrastructure was the fun part and somebody else will have the hard job to clean up the mess? That Iran is next? Who is going to tell her that Bush is indifferent to the agony he's caused, the terror he's produced, the horror he's let free?
That there was no real reason?
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