Good Grief

Mission accomplished? From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

What an unhappy anniversary. It is four years since the invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of the tyrant Saddam Hussein. And the more time passes, themore this military adventure looks like a disaster for everyone concerned. Not least the people of Iraq.

The large-scale opinion poll conducted there by the BBC and others may not have been as scientific as conditions of peace would permit, but its verdict is a damning one. Asked if life was good, two years ago 71 percent said yes, but now that figure has almost halved.

Fewer than one in five has confidence in the coalition forces, and 51 percent say that attacks on the occupying troops are justified.

Half of those who responded said life is worse now than under Saddam.

Even the Iraqi weightlifting champion who, four years ago, was famously filmed pounding a statue of Saddam with a sledgehammer, said: "The Americans are worse than the dictatorship. Every day is worse than the previous day." It was bound to get worse before it got better, the remaining few apologists for war say. But how long must we persevere with this unchanged policy before we admit that we are not going to turn any corner?

By the way, the weightlifter, Kadhim al-Jubouri, is a guy picked by the Americans to smash the statue, and a guy who actually spent time in Abu-Ghraib under Saddam, sent there by Uday. Now even he says it's worse than before.

What a waste of time, money and blood that could've been better spent in northwest Pakistan going after the cockroaches who hit us on 9/11.

Unreal.

How many more days until January 20, 2009??