May 16, 2004

Under a blood-soaked flag
'George Bush has defined himself as a war president, and it's fitting that he should die by the sword - in fact fall on it, and quick.'

The irreducible truth is that the invasion of Iraq was the worst blunder, the most staggering miscarriage of judgment, the most fateful, egregious, deceitful abuse of power in the history of American foreign policy. If you don't believe it yet, just keep watching.

Since the defining moment of the Bush presidency, the preposterous flight-suit, Fox News-produced photo-op on the Abraham Lincoln in front of the banner that read "Mission Accomplished," the shaming truth is that everything has gone wrong. Just as it was bound to go wrong, as many of us predicted it would go wrong--if anything more hopelessly wrong than any of us would have dared to prophesy. Iraq is an epic train wreck, and there's not a single American citizen who's going to walk away unscathed.

Somewhere in hell, Goering and Goebbels toasted each other with a schnapps.

Holy crap. A must-read by Hal Crowther.


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