Under mounting pressure to justify the disaster he created in Iraq, Bush says we should stay in Iraq in order to honor the 1800 soldiers who have been killed in Iraq. Let’s put aside for the moment the obvious fact that this criterion for continuing to send our sons and daughters to slaughter has nothing to do with whether we can actually accomplish anything useful by being there, and ponder the following: if the logic of this dangerous statement were followed consistantly throughout history, no war would ever end!
Yet the president who is responsible for the deaths of these servicemen and women makes this hypocritical and perverse utterance almost daily.