I'm a big dummy, but I'll throw in my two cents:
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Originally Posted by roachboy
so i detect a kind of floating cynicism about the withdrawal. where was this about the war itself?
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Oh, I dunno... probably over there filling sandbags and dodging mortar rounds while you had your morning tea. I was surprised how few OMGFuckYeahWar! guys are actually in the armed forces. Most enlisted guys I've met aren't fans of Iraq / OIF. Iraq is easy: WTF?
The notion that the American people were completely blind to the delayed kneejerk push into Iraq is a little insulting. We can't be that stupid, right? I think the whole "...but we're still in Afghanistan" thing helped a lot of average people put 2 + 2 together.
The scapegoat is Joe Sixpack's support of Dubya perhaps? Joe may have been into the invasion of Iraq. "Yeah, kick Saddam's ass [for _X_ murky reason]!" But that, like everything in Joe Sixpack's ADD mind, fades quickly. Just like America flags on September 12th 2001 vs. September 12th 2002.
A-stan is a mixed bag.
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there's nothing like an inquiry into the farcical neo-con agenda and the shabby-ass fake intel that got the us involved in iraq in the first place.
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Okay. What consequences / penalties would you suggest or is it just to be part of Chapter 17 learning points in a Western Civ text circa 2035?
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there's just a leaving. and we're a little jaded for that.
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What do you mean "we?"
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I expect people to be bitter.
This wasn't a "war" in any sense of the word. Nobody really won anything. At least not in the sense that makes the music swell at the end of an action epic. How could it? All we have are some more headstones at Arlington and a lot of money invested in something we can't/don't want to keep.