Jessica, you're still young enough to join the military. Right?

The Brawler is left nigh speechless by the incoherence, ignorance and general suckiness of Jessica's latest meditation on our occupation of Iraq -- which is, yes, in the midst of a civil war.

The title: Rethinking Iraq? Here are the first three paragraphs:

Am I rethinking our decision to go to Iraq?

No. An emphatic no.

It's worth discussing why not as the surrender crescendo rages out of control. I am not rethinking our decision because you have to judge it based on what we knew at the time, absent evidence that the Bush administration dishonestly manipulated what we knew at the time. And there is no solid evidence of that. If there were, the president would be impeached.

Umm, yellow cake? Aluminum tubes? Relying on sources who we had reason to believe were full of shit? These are just off the top of my head. Has she read a book about Iraq? Watched a newscast?

It gets worse from there. And yes, Jessica manages to bring it all back to her by talking about how she went to NYC the day after 9/11.

Why is she teaching journalism?

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[folkbum]

The more she writes, the deeper in it she gets. Wow.

McBride's problem--and she is far from the only one with this issue--is that she doesn't acknowledge what the rest of the world knows: that the Iraq War is no longer the United States versus anybody. The US is barely a party to the fighting that's going on at all. The vast majority of the fighting now is a particularly deadly manifestation of the centuries-old conflict between Sunni and Shia, with US soldiers caught in the crossfire. The "government" of Iraq is not unified, but rather a collection of fiefdoms, as each ministry, apportioned to the fighting factions, has its own militia and agenda--again, catching US personnel in literal and intergovernmental crossfire.

Under those conditions, how in the hell can the US achieve any kind of "victory" any more? Explain that, Jessica. Explain that.

[kr]

This cheese stunk from the second W served it up.

It is one thing like many Democrats to admit they were wrong. Then we have the McBride of Chuck who is too stubborn to own up the horrible mess Bush created.

Shame.