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Assuming this is all on the up and up, and no WMD tied to the Hussein regime are ever again found - or are being looked for away from the eye of the media - what is the point of saying, in effect, that justification for this war is 'officially' faulty?
"Oops, we gave you the lobotomy McMurphy, but you really didn't need it after all? Sorry 'bout that..."
Why announce this after 2 years of bloody warfare, after thousands from both sides have died? Why say this just as the wheels of progress are beginning to turn? Why does this need to be hammered home now, 3 weeks before elections, and in light of the massive reconstruction effort in the country?? So, Iraq will now possibly go ahead and be rebuilt, but only in spite of the reasons for rebuilding it? Maybe nothing positive deserves to happen in Iraq, the way this has been handled by the media, with it's Abu Ghraib's and it's killings of unarmed 'insurgents' in warzones.
So now, what does this all mean then? Isn't it a moot irrelevance at this point? We've swam halfway across the Atlantic Ocean in snorkeling gear, now we just turn around and swim back, having accomplished nothing?
Live by the media, die by the media...
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