AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

07/22/05

One by one, the bogus rationales for this futile and increasingly costly war are abandoned. Weapons of mass destruction -- nada. Saddam's alleged links to al-Qaeda -- zilch. 'Freedom' and 'democracy' -- Forget it: the new constitution ensures that neither will emerge. Which raises the question we started out asking: Why are we in Iraq? Why did 1,700-plus American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis have to die, with many more than that grievously wounded, physically and psychologically? Did all this suffering and death come about due to the moral imperative of setting up an Iranian-style 'Islamic Republic of Iraq,' as the country will be known henceforth? While some Americans are not-so-subtly encouraged to join the military as a way out of a generations-long cycle of poverty, we're pouring billions down the ratholes of Iraq's emerging state bureaucracy, handing out cash by the barrel to finance the rule of Iraqi mullahs...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp