I'll admit that it's a matter I should have a lot more to say about. I'm not exactly sure why I don't, except that I'm ultimately a non-confrontational person, and Iraq is the ultimate in confrontational. So what should I say?
That Halliburton should be absorbed by the FEC and dismantled at Dick Cheney's personal expense?
That Donald Rumsfeld and Erik Prince should be in prison in the Hague for war crimes?
That everyone who bought an SUV after 2003 should have been drafted to go to Iraq themselves?
That any officer who didn't resign his commission at the first mention of "Stop Loss" should be court-martialed?
That Iraq is going to collapse into anarchy regardless of how long America occupies it, so to argue against withdrawl is blatant idiocy?
That yes, I would in fact prefer to see Saddam Hussein still alive and in power than the alternative?
"It never should have happened for any of the reasons given, the entire American presence should leave yesterday, and everyone in this and the past administration who ever argued that it was good idea should have to answer in federal court for why they thought so," sums up my opinions on the Iraq War. It was just too fucked in too many different ways for me to form a coherent assessment of, and it winds up touching on every other subject from the past decade. Litany upon litany of what could have been instead. It absolutely astounds me, more with each passing year, that there's anyone in the country who thinks any differently.