...I think any credibility he may have had re: "the mision" vanished utterly. The only valid use of a military force is to protect the people of this nation--not foreign nation building, not "bringing freedom" or "bringing democracy" (and the two are vastly different, in spite of his always putting the two together), and not anything else. This war was largely predicated on the assumption that Iraq continued to maintain the C-B materials that we knew they had in the past, and that Hussein had enjoyed using liberally. That we would find no such materials, and that the president would joke about it to the hackery in attendance at the 2003(4?) press gala is probably one of the lowest things I've ever, ever seen.

Better than any montage, these actions demonstrate Bush's disconnect with the costs of this war, and they demonstrate everything wrong with him when he intones his "...so they can come home with the honor they deserve" line. Firstly, our "commander-in-chief's" press corps shenanigans do the ultimate dishonor, and preclude any appreciation for what he has truly done, and secondly, we do not predicate the honor of our military on their ability to mediate sectarian civil wars in foreign lands.

No WMD's? No threat and no valid mission remains in Iraq for a military that should only be judiciously employed to protect our people. Mr. Bush's "mission accomplished" pronouncement after the fall of Iraq was the only he has gotten technically *correct* thus far, *right* notwithstanding.

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Sit and watch as the Cor'pirate' system implodes.
From the weight of it's own Corruption, GREED and
BU__! SH__!
We all will wonder someday!
Why did it take so long?
As The FAUX Media Band plays on.
All the Citizens have been bled dry and are
Tired of War.
Another TRILLION for Halli-Carlye and Co.
Votes the congress of hypocrite millionaire mercenary lawyers.
All for us and none for you!
As America goes down the drain.
Who has to pay the price?
SUCKERS
That’s who!
Even Bush & Co is moving to South America.
All that is left for the people to eat is,
Pie in the sky.
Things are so bad that even The Bored Again wish it would be over with.
So they can escape to Heaven.
And do what?
Pick daises?
What will their answer be?
When the Prince of Peace greets them at the door and asks,
"Where have you left your brother?"

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Every intelligence agency in the world thought there were WMD in Iraq.
The Clinton administration thought the same.
Every prominent Democrat thought the same.
Saddam's own generals thought the same up until a short time before the invasion.

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This affected me the same way The Wall did the first time I saw it in DC and looked up the names of men I knew and served with in Vietnam who didn't make it. I go from tears to rage against the elitist greedmongers in this country who should pay the full measure for their deeds.

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As we continue to fuel the military and private sector mercenaries, many more will continue to die, but lets not forget to add to what we see here, the thousands of Iraqi and Afghan civilians that have come to a brutal death by our corrupt foreign policy. The testamony of the last person in this clip has to be the most powerful. So sad.

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Military Service Eligible Children Of The Hacks Who Are Responsible for the Deaths of 3,844 and maiming of 28,385 American service members:

George W. Bush: Jenna, Barbara

Jeb Bush: George P. , Noelle, John Ellis Jr. (George P enlisted in the Navy Reserve so that he could train on the ship named after his grandfather, George H.W. Were he a true patriot, his butt would be in the army or marines where there is a chance that he would actually get to defend his country.)

Neil Bush: Lauren, Pierce, Ashley Walker

Marvin Bush: Marshall

Dorothy Bush Koch: Samuel LeBlond, Ellie LeBlond

Dick Cheney: Mary, Elizabeth, Philip J. Perry (son-in-law)

Karl Rove: Andrew

Mitt Romney: Taggart M., Matthew S., Joshua J., Benjamin P., Craig E.

Karen P. Hughes: Leigh, Robert

Joe Lieberman: Matthew, Rebecca, Ethan and Hana, (granddaughters: Tennessee, Willie and Eden, and grandson, Yitzhak)

Rudolph W. Giuliani: Andrew , Caroline

Paul Wolfowitz: Sara, David, Rachel

William Kristol (a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC)) which was the beginning to the Republican/Bush/Cheney/Perle/Wolfowitz path of destruction of this country, has three military elegible children, non of whom has seen fit to served their country)

Monica Goodling, D. Kyle Sampson, J. Timothy Griffin

And this does not include the children of the lapdog members of the so-called press who share a large part of the responsibility for the carnage that is Iraq.

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I wonder why we can't see a similar protest to demonstrate the cost of abortion. I guess there's not a park large enough to place all those diapers.

Also, if we could see what would have occurred had we not removed Saddam Hussein from power, we would most assuredly be viewing a much more dramatic demonstration of the cost of not doing anything.

War sucks. There's no question about that. But the sequence of events that would have occurred with Saddam at the helm of the Persian lands would suck way worse than what's going on right now.

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