WTF Is It Now?!?

Breaking ranks
More and more US soldiers are speaking out against the war in Iraq - and some are refusing to fight.

“Now, you realize that the people to blame for this aren’t the ones you are fighting,” ex-Marine Mike Hoffman said. “It’s the people who put you in this situation in the first place. You realize you wouldn’t be in this situation if you hadn’t been lied to. Soldiers are slowly coming to that conclusion. Once that becomes widespread, the resentment of the war is going to grow even more.”

- Read more here.

Resolute-nitude

We must stay the course, the battered Mr. Bush keeps repeating. Or those who fell in battle will have died in vain. No retreat. Line in the sand. More must kill and die in Iraq to give meaning to the deaths of the poor GIs who perished there before them.

No matter that Bush and Cheney sent American troops to save us from non-existent nukes and other WMDs.
Or to avenge 9/11, in which Saddam Hussein played no part.
Or to bring the Iraqis 'democracy' with hand-picked collaborators, rigged caucuses, postponed elections, and - at least so far - a stubborn refusal to allow the non-secular Shiite Muslim majority to govern.
No matter that Bush and Cheney acted in bad faith with both the UN and US Congress.
Or knowingly lied to the American people.
Or failed so miserably to prepare for the long guerrilla war that now saps so much blood and money.

- Steve Weissman.