“When the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma”

[jody]

[annabanana]

1. Unnecessary war. ..Launched on lies. . Every death is murder.

I will not turn my back on these victims.

[babylonsister]

2. What a POS was/is he. nt

[rfranklin]

3. As abhorrent as it is to acknowledge, he's absolutely correct....

This is the modus operandi of one empire after another, creating war to take control of resources. It's gone on since the beginning of man's emergence on this planet and will probably continure until the end of his existence.

[patrice]

4. In "Death of a Ball Turret Gunner" the WWII poet Randall Jarrel constructs a metaphor in which

the ball turret on the bottom of a bomber is the womb of the State.

Also read the WWI poet Wilfred Owen on this lovely Memorial Day http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Wilfred_Owen/wilfred_owen_contents.htm

[spanone]

5. he doesn't have the balls to say that to the victims family members

i've already forgotten what a small unthinking little guy he was.....

[Initech]

6. Only if we prosecute those motherfuckers will this not happen.

[tj2001]

7. "The United States of America understood that Iraq was a central front in the war on terror"

"I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma."
- George W. Bush, September 24, 2006

"When this chapter of history will be written . . . it's going to be a comma -- the Iraqis voted, comma, and the United States of America understood that Iraq was a central front in the war on terror and helped this young democracy flourish."
- George W. Bush, October 3, 2006

[jimshoes]

8. Thankfully we do not have to endure

any more of that mental stumblebum's pearls of wisdom any more. I am thankful for that.