Iraq, Land of Rainbows and Candy

So Iraq? Yeeeeaaaaahhhh….. It’s awesome to know that no matter what political party you vote into office (cough Democrats) neither one will ever live up to their campaign promises, or even acknowledge that the promises existed in the first place. In fact they seem to believe that the American people’s opinion exist because of the politicians leadership, not the other way around.
The majority of Americans what to get the hell out of Iraq. Nuts to those who still blabber about “Supporting our Troops” since the vast majority of American troops have been demanding to end this debacle since 2005. Some folk think that slapping a yellow ribbon on their car and keeping any contact with our veterans at an ambigeus arms reach of patriotism will be enough to suffice their care. When really all an Iraq veteran wants is a good hug and our reassurance that they’ll be taken care of, not to mention that they’ll be kept needlessly out of harms way.
All, 100%, unanimously, the entirety of the rest of the world with no exceptions or exaggeration think we’re so full of shit our eyes have turned brown. And, oh yeah, the actually Iraqis in questions so want us off their front lawns they’re trying to kill us!
So why isn’t it clear to the Legislative Branch that by the logic of democracy, with the whole mob rule behind this, we should be out of there two days before the day after tomorrow. Sure the president has had unlimited power since Lyndon B. to wage war at his wildest whim, but there’s still one power left to you senators out there; cut the sodding funding! It’s not pretty for certain, but it’s one sure fire way to end this reefer madness. If the generals have no more bullion, then they have to come home. And don’t think that by cutting the military’s umbilical cord it’ll leave the troops stranded, the pentagon has and always keeps an emergency “retreat” fund from day one in just such an emergency.
The Democrats have no excuse for their lethargic lax laziness.
Over a million Iraqis, civilians and otherwise, have been killed since the invasion. When does collateral damage become collateral genocide? Recent reports of decreasing rates of violence have more to do with the fact there is nobody left to kill than any nonsense about a successful troop surge. And sure Iraq was not the land of unicorns and rainbows under Sadam, that guy was a dick, but it wasn’t the land of Murdor either. In fact the reason why the Iraqi people at large were really to accept (they hated him but were willing to live with him) Sadam as their tyrant was because Iraq was one of the most prosperous states in the region, with the highest literacy rates among women in the Arabic world. Then our two subsequent invasions totally annihilated this and their (free) educational system to boot.
There were never any weapons of mass destruction. We have no reason to be there besides ridicules amounts of greed. Our ‘cut and running’ will not cause Iraq to descend into (even further) chaos; I mean it’s not as if the presence of American troops is somehow, against all evidence, the last blue line before outright cannibalism. This newest propaganda blurb in a long line of half-baked excuses by the administration is as raciest as it comes. Assuming that the Iraqi people are somehow ethnically/culturally less capable to manage their own affairs then us. That we need to come in an install Democracy at gunpoint is contradictory to the whole point of Democracy.
The sectarian violence now so overtly prevalent in Iraq (but in fact mostly, 80%, directed at Americans) did not exist before the invasion. If a pot of water wasn’t boiling before you put it on the stove, then the best way to get it to quit is to remove the fire. We’re the fire by the way.