Iz Man wrote: 
Fox news is a source that is heavily biased towards Republican, and recently, neoconservative views. This would be fine, except that it vehemently denies its conservative bias and would stoop so low as to make "mistakes" in its reporting in order to generate support for the Republican party. Whatever happened to the conservative platform of small government?
No one disagrees that, in a sense, Iraq is better off without Saddam. No one can also deny, however, that Iraq's infrastructure is almost totally destroyed, sectarian violence is now a daily occurance, and that a large portion of the population is living without access to basic needs like clean water or electricity.
Putting all this aside, it was the initial "justification" for war that is what's so wrong about it all. If you'll recall from the early days of 2002, the initial idea was that Iraq was a
immediate threat to the safety of the citizens of the United States of America. Aside from the refusal of the United Nations to give sanction to a war started on some vague notion of "pre-emption," the United States never had any evidence to justifiably start any sort of war in the first place. Vague satellite photos of random trucks and plagiarized portions of a graduate student's essay is suddenly sufficient "evidence" to start a
war? Please. Iraq, with all its enforced no-fly zones and sanctions, barely had enough technology and hardware to launch a missile into Iran (which would be suicide), much less develop an ICBM and a nuclear warhead capable of reaching North America. The idea of "liberating the Iraqis" came much later, when it was patently obvious that there were no WMDs.
You think you fought with one hand tied behind your back? Try two. The administration also never had any idea of what to do with Iraq once they've, by some vague notion, "achieved victory." The declaration of "end of all major combat operations" was
years ago, yet conflict and skirmishes are seen everywhere. Throwing more soldiers and hoping for an open-arm welcome from the entire citizenry was about all that was on the table before the invasion began. The soldiers of the US deserve better than this.
The rest of your post shows some blanket desire to "destroy the enemy." Well, who are the enemy? Is it the civilians living in the buildings on which cluster bomb after cluster bomb have been dropped? Is it the droves of citizens for whom their livelihood and way of life have been eradicated in a matter of days? Was plunging the national treasury into a trillion-dollar deficit worth it? Did this action save lives, like a timely response on Katrina would have?
Don't expect the Democrats come next election, should they win, to fix this, either. The situation is now a catch-22. Damned if you pull out, damned if you don't.
Edit: This is the longest reply I've ever written in response to an emoticon
. I dont think the enemy is so much exploiting as they are defending the land we unrightfully invaded... this is true for most "enemies" at least .
