Infamy

Still on the go, on the run, burning the proverbial candle at both ends. Involved to the teeth in an increasingly nasty political fight over a Massachusetts ballot issue. But I couldn't let the day go by without linking to Cenk Uygur's brilliant post at HuffPo this morning, concerning the travesty of Iraq:

George Bush now threatens to go from one of the worst leaders in US history to one of the worst leaders in world history. Iraq had allowed the weapons inspectors back in, they were doing their job, Iraq had absolutely no weapons of mass destruction, the United States military was doing a fantastic job of containing Saddam Hussein, there was no sectarian hostility in Iraq, there was stability in the region - and we came in like a bull in china shop and turned the whole country upside down. For what?

Democracy? Conservative pundits are now saying the Bush administration is considering replacing the Iraqi government. What? I thought they had a democracy. I thought that was the noble mission (of course, I didn't really think this, but that's the bullshit they've been feeding us all this time and the press has dutifully written down as if it had any merit in fact).

No WMD. No connection to 9/11. No democracy. No stability. Nothing accomplished but a horrible, unspeakable civil war. We ought to cover our faces in shame for what we have done to Iraq. Yes, it was us. There was no civil war before us. There were no Shiite militias. There were no death squads. There was no insurgency. We broke it, now we own it. To make excuses and to blame the Iraqis at this point is revolting.

George Bush has done the impossible - made Saddam Hussein's reign in Iraq seem not so bad by comparison. When you manage to make Saddam look good, you can't go any lower.

As I've said many times in the past, the unspeakable mess this Administration has made of... well, of everything it's touched, frankly, will have repercussions through the remainder of my lifetime, and possibly my children's as well. Good God, how have we allowed America to come to this in just 6 short years? And, as Mr. Uygur concludes:

If you vote for any of these guys again, you are one hundred percent guilty. You are voting for men and women who say they would make the same horrific choices again. They have warned you of how unimaginably callous and barbaric they are - and if you vote for them again, you are no better than they are. This is a democracy. What our leaders do, we do. If we break it, we own it.

Now, it's up to you. Are you going to send these guys back in to make the same mistakes they promise to make again?

I couldn't agree more.