Who would have thought we'd reached such an unappealing milestone. Not only will December 13th mark the 1000th day of war, but we'll have MORE troops there today than at the start and America will have lost nearly 2000 souls since the mission was accomplished.
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The count of the souls Iraq has lost may number into the tens of thousands but apparently these souls don't carry the same value of American lives. A thousand days, a thousand people and thousand reasons why no good could and will ever come of this war. Millions of Americans continue to cling with whatever thread of rationality they can muster that we are fighting the terrorists in Iraq to keep from fighting them here in America. But this rational will not absolve us, just as the survivors of the Titanic were not absolved by their fears of being swamped by the hundreds drowning in the freezing Atlantic.
We will not be absolved because there is no transparency in the American actions in Iraq. No American knows if terrorists or bystanders or civil insurgents or victims of tribal rivalries are being killed in Iraq. All of this blood is on American hands. This blood will stain us for ages. Is this liberal or Catholic or religious right conservative guilt? No, just the reality of the insanity and stupidity of invading a country that did not attack us. The reality that the intelligence was so bad and so poor that no intelligence officer has yet lost thier job. A reality that the lack of accountability fuses into a lack of moral authority. A vacum so corrosion that the nation can not be absolved.
December 13th will mark 1000 days at war with Iraq. A war where the WMDs were secured(easy since they didn't exist), the original leader has been deposed(fairly easy since the leader decided to hide in a hole in the ground, pretty scary fellow) and a new government has been formed. Milestones met, except for one, the one where the soldiers where told the fastest way home was through Bagdad. They did that. No let them come home.