A (slightly) shorter John McTernan.
Aren't the Kurds fantastic? Shame about the Sunni and Shiites, eh?
You see, the real reason why Iraq is currently descending into the abyss is because we left too early. We were selfish. We should have stayed for as long as was needed, as long as it took Saddam to destroy the place. He did it all, you see.
We have a responsibility to go back there right now and start killing more Iraqis. Let's face it, if there's one thing we've been world class at over the past decade, it's killing Iraqis. To be fair, we can't take all the credit. Most of the actual smiting has been by the Iraqis themselves, we just lit the torch paper by having not a solitary fucking clue of what to do after we completely and utterly destroyed the Ba'athist state for the sheer sake of it.
As for all you cynics and stoppers, muttering under your breath about how al-Qaida didn't exist in Iraq prior to our kicking the door in, you're bloodless, amoral cowards. You might as well say "Saddam may have been a fascist who inflicted genocide on the Kurds at the same time as we supported his war against Iran and sold him weapons", oh, sorry, got a bit confused there. Wasn't the war about WMD? I've forgotten.
The truth is if we don't act now, we will have to act later. We have to go back to Iraq to rescue a democracy that isn't working because the politicians won't share power. Isn't that right, Tony?
P.S. As a very special treat, here's a shorter Owen Jones:
I have encountered no sense of vindication, no "I told you so", among veterans of the anti-war protest of 15 February 2003 in response to the events in Iraq. That's why I'm writing this.
You see, the real reason why Iraq is currently descending into the abyss is because we left too early. We were selfish. We should have stayed for as long as was needed, as long as it took Saddam to destroy the place. He did it all, you see.
We have a responsibility to go back there right now and start killing more Iraqis. Let's face it, if there's one thing we've been world class at over the past decade, it's killing Iraqis. To be fair, we can't take all the credit. Most of the actual smiting has been by the Iraqis themselves, we just lit the torch paper by having not a solitary fucking clue of what to do after we completely and utterly destroyed the Ba'athist state for the sheer sake of it.
As for all you cynics and stoppers, muttering under your breath about how al-Qaida didn't exist in Iraq prior to our kicking the door in, you're bloodless, amoral cowards. You might as well say "Saddam may have been a fascist who inflicted genocide on the Kurds at the same time as we supported his war against Iran and sold him weapons", oh, sorry, got a bit confused there. Wasn't the war about WMD? I've forgotten.
The truth is if we don't act now, we will have to act later. We have to go back to Iraq to rescue a democracy that isn't working because the politicians won't share power. Isn't that right, Tony?
P.S. As a very special treat, here's a shorter Owen Jones:
I have encountered no sense of vindication, no "I told you so", among veterans of the anti-war protest of 15 February 2003 in response to the events in Iraq. That's why I'm writing this.
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