Let's Have a War

While Dubya runs victory laps on his treadmill (and Cheney recharges his pacemaker and has his blood replaced), there’s yet more to add to the mountain of evidence detailing the Bush administration’s incredible bungling of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. And it all boils down to the fact that the White House and Pentagon didn’t have enough troops on the ground to keep law and order. There is now a report from a group of soldiers who were at al Qaqaa after the invasion who said they were completely outnumbered by looters and could not prevent the mass theft of munitions (one GI compared it to the looting in LA after the Rodney King verdict). Requests for reinforcements went unanswered, too. And Human Rights Watch has issued a report that the U.S. may have compromised its case against Saddam Hussein because they failed to protect crucial evidence against this murderous dictator: government files were stolen or destroyed by Iraqis, and mass grave sites were dug up by relatives of the regime’s victims. But, hey, eleven states have outlawed gay marriage and the man in the White House worships the “right God.” So all must be good in the world… Remember to smile and be ready to smite the baby killers and sodomites!