2,000 and counting

The sad fact is that we have just passed the 2,000 mark for U.S. fatalities in Iraq. This grim tally surely gives us pause to ask once more: why? The pretexts for war given to us by the Administration have all long ago been exposed as either misleading or wrongheaded: there were no weapons of mass destruction, there was no terror link, and Saddam was not about to attack the U.S.. We were deceived. Duped. Lied to. However you couch it the outcome is the same, the people of the U.S. [and the rest of the world] were taken for a monumental ride by a group of conspiritorial ‘cabalists’ hell bent on invading Iraq. They saw no wrong in cooking the books to take advantage of our post-9/11 fears, and they brooked no opposition [see Valerie Plame]. Now they have the blood of over 2,000 U.S. military men and women on their hands, not to mention that of the 30,000 or more Iraqis who have died in this unnecessary war. Are they contrite? Not at all. Are they guilty? Absolutely. Shame on us all for for falling for the scam.