Seventeen years ago, on 19 March 2003, the US invaded Iraq.
Five coalition servicemen died this past week in Iraq, four of them were Americans.
Let me preface this statement by stating that I endorse all of Sanders' platform: Medicare for All, College for All, Green New Deal, and so on. I'll be voting for Sanders on May 19th when the situation will have changed quite a bit.
Pity the poor Iraqis. They dared to officially ask us to leave their nation today. They even asked nicely.
Anyone who thinks that supporting the troops means supporting pointless wars, or that bombing villages somehow "teaches them a lesson" is not a deep thinker. When you encounter people that reflexively support wars against places and people that they know absolutely nothing about, you should be aware that you are dealing with someone who is both ignorant and angry.
"History repeats; the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
- Karl Marx
Judith Miller, Karl Rove, Tom Friedman, Joe Lieberman have all crawled out from whatever rocks they were hiding under to step in front of TV cameras and tell us how wonderful a war with Iran will be.
The Iranians will strike back eventually, but the costs are already adding up.
We've long since left international law behind.
Russia and China have to think "Could we be next?"
I'm going to update this essay later. This should get things rolling for now.
Back to reality.
Begone, visions of sham impeachment. Begone, epic mounds of hypocrisy. Begone, purveyors of death, destruction, desolation.
Begone Social Justice Warriors, who only fight for the Politically Correct goal.
Begone, Snowflakes with their trigger-free zones of shelter from life.
Most Americans are oblivious to how deeply entangled we are in the conflicts in Africa.
November 11 is day 315 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Setting Orange, The Aftermath 23, 3185 (discordian),
And let us not forget 13.0.6.17.16 by the Mayan Long Count
