WAR DOCUMENTARY CHILLING

On the off chance, I went and rented a movie called "No end in sight", and spent the next hour and a half just dismayed and stunned.

I'll save the flowery speech about how this war continues to fail for a latter time; as I'll share this nugget of information: Those who started and conducted this war had nothing in the ways of foreign policy experience, nothing in the ways of military experience, nothing in the ways of reconstruction experience.

I watched this administration's reaction to the news of how Iraq spiraled down into chaos early on, and their behavior was clearly one of whom didn't really care. Donald Rumsfeld's evasiveness, Paul Bremer's ignorance of the Iraqis needs themselves, Bush's detachment from the whole affair--as he delegated the most important tasks of the occupation and rebuilding to lackeys whom had nothing in the way of real experience at the theater in question.

Looking at the latest reports of how the Malaki government is still unable to go forward in national reconciliation--2.5 years after being sworn in--I can still see the hand that's been dealt us from 2003 on: The ignorance, the gross incompetence, the lack of an understanding on how to wage war and deal with its aftermath.

All this from the war architects of this administration.

And what was worse about the documentary? I could easily see the ghost of Vietnam crop up in many of the disturbing images. I felt sick and sympathetic--despite my own anti-war stance.

Our soldiers deserved better than this quagmire that Bush hand picked for us all.

And they will never get it.

Schuyler Thorpe

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