Fuck this Iraq War debate; I'm ending it right here motherfuckers

Iraq: They were a sovereign nation. They were not associated with terrorists who were threatening our country, and no Iraqi elements were implicated in any terrorist crimes or plots against the U.S.A. Their ruler was an insane freak, but he had control of the country. We took that away after asking him to disarm, putting him out of work, rooting him out, and killing him. The idea of telling him to disarm and expecting him to do it is as ludicrous as the idea of him telling us to disarm and expecting us to do it. The people who say "he was in violation of the U.N. [etc]" are the same people who say the U.N. ought not have the power to override our nation's security interests, and they would argue vehemently against following any sanction ever delivered by that body to our country determining our military options. Iraq is now filled with rival factions gutting each other to the tune of thousands dead in the streets each month. Iraq was not filled with rival factions gutting each other to the tune of thousands dead in the streets each month in March of 2003.

The troops: They are paid to do a job, and they answer the calling to sacrifice in a way civilians in the argument will not understand. We cannot speak for them. They were asked, by our executive branch, to take part in a security mission which the pages of time will always mark as a net negative. That is, our country will be less secure than when they started. They were sent on an improper mission to begin; a mission which never should've been asked of them. It is not their fault. They continue now in a role which can only be classified as mission creep. Their sacrifice is due to the failure of our government to prevent their protracted security mission in a far-flung hostile nation, in the role of invader-occupier. They are not "supporting a fledgling democracy;" they are the literally the only thing propping up a dysfunctional, do-nothing regime. They are a drowning father holding his son, who does not know how to swim, above water. Too late for swimming lessons. Napkin brainstorm: maybe send another father or two to help hold up boy?

The government of our country, then and now: the executive branch civilians (strip off the "CI" and add an "L" in the middle, and reverse the "IA," if you're playing at home) who cooked up and executed the Iraq mission are the worst traitors in our country's history. They were playing with military units like a venture capitalist playing with resources in an emerging market. It was a business world sense of "this is doable" which pervaded the entire executive and security apparatuses, but at the end of the failed venture, we don't just get to fire management, cut losses, and look at ways we can repackage our venture. We are just plum fucked. Sorry! Our government today is faced with an impossible monster of a problem, to which the only answer is to throw in more troops. Literally! Can you think of another one?

Good night, folks!